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61 " All I've ever wanted was to be near you. "
― Shannon Hale , Enna Burning (The Books of Bayern, #2)
62 " I know I would crumble if I lost you. "
63 " The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween. "
― Shannon Hale , Midnight in Austenland (Austenland, #2)
64 " To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story--begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss. "
― Shannon Hale , The Actor and the Housewife
65 " ..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry. "
― Shannon Hale , Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4)
66 " I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous. "
― Shannon Hale
67 " But Princess Magnolia wore glass slippers on weekdays. Princess Magnolia was afraid of snails. Sunlight made Princess Magnolia sneeze. And at the moment, the Princess in Black was hog-tying a monster. "
― Shannon Hale , The Princess in Black (The Princess in Black, #1)
68 " In movies, we are accustomed to seeing handsome actors. It's so commonplace on the screen, large or small, that we barely note it as extraordinary. But in life, rarely do we encounter an onslaught of beauty, entire a hive of handsomeness, find ourselves awash in an ocean of attractiveness, drowning in a miasma of hotness. "
69 " Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale "
― Shannon Hale , The Unfairest of Them All (Ever After High, #2)
70 " Great "
71 " 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 is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky. "
― Shannon Hale , Book of a Thousand Days
72 " Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness. "
73 " 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? "
― Shannon Hale , Austenland (Austenland, #1)
74 " It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do. "
― Shannon Hale , Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
75 " It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up. "
76 " And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next. "
― Shannon Hale , Dangerous
77 " Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head. "
― Shannon Hale , The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
78 " I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley "
79 " At least one memory remained vivid: once or twice each night, ----- would turn over in his sleep, his back to her, and play a long note on the buttocks bassoon. Enjoy that adorable quirk. "
80 " I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself. "