Shannon Hale: Trending quotes (page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.”

“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.”

“Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?”