Shannon Hale Quotes - Page 7

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• No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

  Shannon Hale

  Comfort, Wetness, Cry

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.93, A&C Black

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• She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.

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  Princess, Eye, Three

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.1, A&C Black

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• No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike

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  Hawks, Strikes, Bites

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.112, A&C Black

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• He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.

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  Alcohol, Different, Looks

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• You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

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  Years, Sky, Window

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• She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

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  Book, Dust, Smell

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.262, A&C Black

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• Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his hands, forming their size and shape from the air. "They were yellow, and smallish, and had lots of petals." "Thank you," she said. "They were beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Air

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.187, A&C Black

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• Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat.” Mr. Nobley: “And yet you chat away.

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  Exercise, Missing, Relief

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?

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  Sky, Courses, Laughed

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• You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

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  Men, Add, Legs

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.191, A&C Black

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• There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

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  Sad, Soul, Tears

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• Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!

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  Blue, Color, Purple

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.69, A&C Black

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• Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.

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  Son, Doing Me, Goes On

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.366, A&C Black

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• Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

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  Clever, Years, Thrones

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.353, A&C Black

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• Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

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  Home, Boys, Laughing

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• ... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

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  Real, Lasts, Poor

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.147, A&C Black

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• What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me. I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.

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  Eye, Hands, Strange Places

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

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  Mean, Gold, Towers

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• WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD

  Shannon Hale

  Horse, Hair, Jail

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• I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.

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  Giving, Pay, I Can

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.180, A&C Black

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• And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

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  Struggle, Sadness, Saws

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• Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

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  Two, Cherries, Cramming

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.13, A&C Black

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• A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.

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  Kings, Children, Heart

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• My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.

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  Waiting, Mama, Used

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• Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.

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  Believe, Book, Character

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