Quotes by Shannon Hale

About Shannon Hale:

Shannon Hale is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, the Books of Bayern series, two adult novels, and two graphic novels that she co-wrote with her husband.
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They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time ...

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... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

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I was thinking how you can't tell if a person's beautiful or not by her shadow...

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There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

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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.

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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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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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I do like the world quite a lot.

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

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I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky i...

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Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

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I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

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I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.

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To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story--begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss.

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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 ...

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

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Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

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Later, when they would spend straight hours conversing in the dark, Jane would realize that Henry kissed the way he talked- his entire attention taut, focused, intensely hers.

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... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

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Author Bio

  • NameShannon Hale
  • DescriptionAmerican fantasy novelist
  • BornJanuary 26, 1974
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksThe Goose Girl; Princess Academy; Book Of A Thousand Days