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

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Stories, Use

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Smell is the voice of the soul.

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  Voice, Smell, Soul

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• Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really?

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  Witty, Falling In Love, Believe

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

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• Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens

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  Falling In Love, Mean, Doe

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland”, p.251, A&C Black

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• A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

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  Children, Heart, Men

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.362, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Over there!" "Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something?

  Shannon Hale

  Panic, Mock

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• I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna

  Shannon Hale

  Sleep, Sides, Responsible

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• ...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER?

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  Emotional, Letters, Invasion

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

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  Nurse, Adorable, Trying

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• Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.

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  Beats, Said, Indigestion

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.185, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.

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  Suicide, Country, Wall

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.374, A&C Black

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• Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.

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  Smell, Nightmare, Smoke

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.41, A&C Black

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• She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.

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  Eye, Kissing, Blood

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.379, A&C Black

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• Finn always called it Enna's Stream. He tended to refer to most anything as belonging to her--Enna's Meadow, Enna's Mountain. When he referred to Yasid as Enna's Kingdom, she said, "Isn't that your heart?" Finn smiled and kissed her hand. Isi rolled her eyes. "Oh you two are impossible." Enna laughed. "This coming from the girl who calls her husband 'sweet little bunny boy'?" Isi blushed. "That was just once.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Sweet, Husband

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• He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.377, A&C Black

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

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  Years, Sky, Window

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

  Shannon Hale

  Comfort, Wetness, Cry

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.93, A&C Black

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• Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.

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  Son, Doing Me, Goes On

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.366, A&C Black

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

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  Memories, Laughing, Harder

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• 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.

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  Believe, Book, Character

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

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  Hurt, Should, I Like Him

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.163, A&C Black

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• They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

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  Good Life, Nice, Together

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

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  Wind, Floating, Stones

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.98, A&C Black

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

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  Faces, Dashing

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

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  Mean, Gold, Towers

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