Quotes By Author: Shannon Hale
“… fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.”
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“I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It’s as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don’t want that ache to stop.”
“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.”
“Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.”
“Look no farther than your hand,Make a choice and take a stand.”
“There you go…let it all slide out. Unhappiness can’t stick in a person’s soul when it’s slick with tears.”
“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
“There’s nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you’ve decided to hate.”
“I’m not bossy – I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.”
“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.”
“Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.”
“I don’t know how you persist in being so stubborn-“”It’s a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.”
“I do like the world quite a lot.”