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1 " You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free. "
― Shannon Hale
2 " You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky. "
― Shannon Hale , Book of a Thousand Days
3 " I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down. "
― Shannon Hale , Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
4 " What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green. "
5 " I do like the world quite a lot. "
6 " Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'. "
― Shannon Hale , The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
7 " 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. "
― Shannon Hale , River Secrets (The Books of Bayern, #3)
8 " He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer. "
9 " I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else. "
― Shannon Hale , The Actor and the Housewife
10 " There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate. "
11 " Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. "
12 " Look no farther than your hand,Make a choice and take a stand. "
13 " There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears. "
14 " 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. "
― Shannon Hale , Enna Burning (The Books of Bayern, #2)
15 " ... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women. "
― Shannon Hale , Austenland (Austenland, #1)
16 " Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. "
17 " 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. "
18 " Being a writer is a good, good thing. "
19 " The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am. "
20 " I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. "
