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Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2) QUOTES

Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2) QUOTES

1 " Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

2 " Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and leaping out unexpectedly. Words were slippery and alive; words wrestled out of her grip and became something new. Words were dangerous. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

3 " The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

4 " Katar," said Britta, "I thought you would want to stay with your friends from home while they were here, so I had your things moved from your room in the delegates' wing."
"You can have my things brought in too," said Peder, throwing himself onto the nearest bed. He sighed as he sank into the soft mattress and rolled onto his side.
"Um... I don't think boys are-" Britta began.
"Don't you mind me!" Peder pulled a blanket over his head.
Miri didn't know how he could even pretend to fall asleep. She could barely keep from pacing.
"Don't worry, Britta," said Esa. "We'll kick him out before night. Off to your fancy apprenticeship, big brother."
She nudged Peder's shape under the blanket. Peder made an exaggerated snoring noise. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

5 " You can be who you will,” he repeated. His voice softened. “And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

6 " I feel like a tiny bug, and the world is a hungry bird looking down at me. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

7 " My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

8 " No small thing, a bee's sting
When it enters the heart
Not so benign, the growing vine
When it tears stone apart "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

9 " You forgot to cough!” he said.
“Sorry.” She coughed.
“Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.”
“Now, Peder, there’s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.”
He stroked his chin. “You’re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.”
She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

10 " No matter that we could be beheaded for this,” said Esa. “Heads are overrated.”
“Yes, they are so unfashionable,” said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. “This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

11 " Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

12 " Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff.
Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

13 " My ma says You can't unspill a stew."

"She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right."

"You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

14 " ... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud.
The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached out, and she thought he meant to grab her straw or perhaps yank her hair as he used to when they were little. But her put his hand behind her head and, leaning forward, pulled her face to his. He kissed her. One long, slow kiss. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

15 " The army slew a thousand and showed little pity
The king ordered fealty from the conquered city
The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty
And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

16 " For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull?
Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining."
Your immensely entertaining sister,
Miri "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

17 " There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out of the bed and onto the floor. He in turn leaped on Liana's bed, clinging to it and laughing as the girls tugged at his ankles.
"So, are you two betrothed?" Katar asked.
"No," Miri said shortly.
"Ohh." Katar smirked, one eyebrow raised, and she looked altogether more like her old self. "It appears I stumbled upon a topic of conversation even more dangerous than revolution. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

18 " Goodness knows she is too fierce for you
Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord
Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue
Her cheek's blush is as false as her word "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

19 " She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue
The mountain, my lady
She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew,
Mount Eskel, my lady "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

20 " Once she'd thought all the knowledge in the world was contained in the princess academy's thirteen books. Now she faced thousands. She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel. "

― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)