Shannon Hale Quotes - Page 6

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• Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

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  Childhood, Tails, Lost

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.28, A&C Black

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• You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

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  Quiet

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.13, A&C Black

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• He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.

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  Faces, Dashing

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

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  Wind, Floating, Stones

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.98, A&C Black

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• What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?

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  Hurt, Should, I Like Him

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.163, A&C Black

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• Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

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  Choices, Sound, Becoming

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• We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

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  Real, Nice, Hands

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• Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

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  Hurt, Home, Lucky

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• They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

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  Good Life, Nice, Together

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• Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

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  Real, Character, Years

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

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• I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

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  Want, Kingdoms, Firsts

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But the hoping, that's what really hurts.

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  Hurt

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.90, A&C Black

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• But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.

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  Suicide, Country, Wall

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.374, A&C Black

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• If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.

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  Shirts, Wet, Ifs

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.77, A&C Black

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• ...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first.

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  Girl, Kissing, May

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• How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, 'What does she want? What can I do for her?' She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be? ~Razo

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  Thinking, Voice, Missing

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.74, A&C Black

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• She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby's neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and thought how people start with wrinkles and end with wrinkles, grow into their skin and then live to grow out of it again.

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  Baby, Dark, Wrinkles

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• Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

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  Heart, Wake Up, Waking

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.188, A&C Black

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• My friends call me by my name." "You don't have any friends." "I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.

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  Names, Want, Treats

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.65, A&C Black

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• He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.

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  Eye, Heart, Dark

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.377, A&C Black

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• She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.

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  Eye, Kissing, Blood

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.379, A&C Black

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• Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.

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  Smell, Nightmare, Smoke

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.41, A&C Black

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• Finn leaped from his horse to greet Enna, and she entwined herself into him, their arms around each other, their faces close. Thoug they did not kiss, Rin thought that the way they looked at each other was even more intimate. 'Let's get married,' Enna was saying with yearning in her voice. 'Please, let's get married right now.' Finn put his face into her neck and whispered something that made her hum.

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  Horse, Kissing, Voice

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• Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.

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  Smell, Waiting, Meat

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.191, A&C Black

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• She dismounted, grabbed Enna's hand so tightly that she drew blood with her fingernails, walked straight into the nearest cottage, and plopped down on a bed. Enna nodded to the startled cottage dwellers. It's the queen, you see," said Enna. "She's going to have a baby in your house. You don't mind?

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  Baby, Queens, Blood

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.212, Bloomsbury Publishing

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