“He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.”Shannon Hale
“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”Shannon Hale book AustenlandSource: 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.”Shannon Hale Enna BurningSource: Enna Burning
“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.”Shannon Hale The Goose GirlSource: The Goose Girl
“WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZELFor horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!REWARD”Shannon Hale Source: Rapunzel's Revenge
“Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.”Shannon Hale River SecretsSource: River Secrets
“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.”Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand DaysSource: Book of a Thousand Days
“Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.”Shannon Hale The Goose GirlSource: The Goose Girl
“No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries.”Shannon Hale Forest BornSource: Forest Born