Shannon Hale
35 quotes
Biography
"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."
"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears."
"Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring."
"You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free."
"I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule."
"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."
"If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours."
"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."
"Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'."
"You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky."
"I do like the world quite a lot."
"He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer."
"You saw my leg?""How can a man help what he sees?"he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg."
"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."
"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."
"The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper."
"Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone."
"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."
"Being a writer is a good, good thing."
"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."
"Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna"