Shannon Hale Quotes - Page 2

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

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Guy, Married

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.7, A&C Black

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• Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

  Shannon Hale

  Inspirational, Solitude, Students

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.

  Shannon Hale

  Mind, Truth Is, Guts

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• I know I would crumble if I lost you.

  Shannon Hale

  Romantic, Lost, Knows

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Careers, Want, Littles

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.198, A&C Black

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• I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

  Shannon Hale

  Stubborn, Mules, Persist

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.296, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

  Clever, Thinking, Listening

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Shannon Hale

  Shy, Panic, Speak

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• 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

  Two, Undoing, Stew

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.205, A&C Black

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• I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

  Shannon Hale

  Book, Night, Tragedy

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• You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "Touch...

  Shannon Hale

  Men, Lakes, Cities

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• 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

  Sweet, Morning, Flower

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• It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

  Shannon Hale

  Karma, Magic, Matter

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.336, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

  Spring, Style, Matter

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.295, A&C Black

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• As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

  Shannon Hale

  Writing, Inconvenient

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• Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

  Shannon Hale

  People, May, Taste

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

  Shannon Hale

  People, Judgement, Opinion

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.112, A&C Black

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• I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

  Shannon Hale

  Giving Up, Real, Taken

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• And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

  Shannon Hale

  Moving, Listening, Next Steps

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.206, A&C Black

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• 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

  Hurt, Firsts, Just Being

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.151, A&C Black

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• She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby's neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and thought how people start with wrinkles and end with wrinkles, grow into their skin and then live to grow out of it again.

  Shannon Hale

  Baby, Dark, Wrinkles

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• Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.

  Shannon Hale

  Smell, Waiting, Meat

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.191, A&C Black

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• Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?

  Shannon Hale

  Sky, Courses, Laughed

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• Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat.” Mr. Nobley: “And yet you chat away.

  Shannon Hale

  Exercise, Missing, Relief

  Shannon Hale (2007). “Austenland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his hands, forming their size and shape from the air. "They were yellow, and smallish, and had lots of petals." "Thank you," she said. "They were beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Air

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.187, A&C Black

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