Shannon Hale Quotes

“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”

Source: River Secrets

“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.”

Source: Austenland

“If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.”

“Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.”

Source: The Goose Girl

“I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”

Source: Austenland

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“Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.”

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

Source: The Goose Girl

“There you go… let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Shannon Hale Quotes

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

Source: Princess Academy

“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.”

Source: The Goose Girl

“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.”

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

Source: The Actor and the Housewife

“All I've ever wanted was to be near you.”

Source: Austenland

“When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.”

Source: Enna Burning

“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.”

Source: The Goose Girl

“I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?”

Source: The Goose Girl

“Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.”

Source: The Goose Girl

“Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.”

Source: The Goose Girl

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

Source: The Goose Girl

“I know I would crumble if I lost you.”

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

“I do like the world quite a lot.”

Source: Enna Burning

“Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

“I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.”

“He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.”

“I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.”

“What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?”

“Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”

Source: Princess Academy

“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.”

Source: Princess Academy

“But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?”

Source: The Goose Girl

“We know it's all just daydreaming… But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.”

Source: Midnight in Austenland

“They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.”

Source: The Goose Girl

“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.”

Source: Enna Burning

“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.”

“… all things speak, in their way, don't they?”

Variant: Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

“My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.”

Source: The Goose Girl

“Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.”

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

“I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine."
"Bayern's Own? But you're a child."
Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.”

Source: The Goose Girl

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

Source: River Secrets

“She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.”

Source: The Actor and the Housewife

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little”

Source: The Goose Girl

“Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.”

Source: Austenland

“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.”

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

“My friends call me by my name."
"You don't have any friends."
"I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.”

Source: Enna Burning

“He did a very good impression of a stone column.”

Source: The Goose Girl

“… as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.”

Source: Princess Academy

“Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.”

“It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat."
"Did she just call you tree rat?”

“If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.”

Source: River Secrets

“No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.”

Source: Austenland

“WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL
For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!
REWARD”

Source: The Goose Girl

“I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.'
Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.”

Source: Rapunzel's Revenge

“Being a writer is a good, good thing.”

Source: River Secrets

“Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!”

“You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.”

Source: River Secrets

“But the hoping, that's what really hurts.”

Source: The Goose Girl

“For Colin Firth:
You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.”

Source: Book of a Thousand Days