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Shannon Hale is an American author born on January 26, 1974. She is known for her works in fantasy and young adult literature, which have gained widespread popularity among readers.

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“... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.”

Real Lasts Felt Poor Chickens

Book:Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”

Want Soul Pain Fall Morning Heard Sky Strange Sweet Eternal Blue Chaos Clouds Yellow Ancestor Gentleness Fall Back Blue Sky Funny Good Morning Morning Sky

Author:Shannon Hale

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

Felt Memories Laughing Harder Laughed

Author:Shannon Hale

“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.”

Firsts Book Sweet Pages Hints Inviting

Book:Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

“She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound”

Heart Song Lost Sound My Heart Guides Wedges

Author:Shannon Hale

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

Way Want Made Kissing Lips Spots

Author:Shannon Hale

“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.”

Knows Mean Littles Can Do Grew Grew Up Tough Gold Shame Hey Thirty Prisoner Towers Coins Glare Rapunzel Gold Coins

Author:Shannon Hale

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

Wanted Alive Hair Horse Rewards Jail Kidnapping Rapunzel

Author:Shannon Hale

“I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.”

Giving I Can Pay

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“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.”

Ifs Men Said Helping Saws Fine Add Legs If I Could

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.”

Years Behinds Lord Years Ago Clever Genuine Ministers Crowns Thrones Estates Dimwits

Book:The Goose Girl

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?”

Men Trying May Beautiful Girl Sides Perfect Kissing Geese You Re Beautiful

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

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

Son Goes On Bleeding Doing Me

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!”

Want Needs Wanted Turns Waiting Color Cold Blue Green Sake Shoulders Purple Cold Shoulder

Book:River Secrets

Source: River Secrets

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

Inspirational Students Solitude Painful Throwing Chill

Book:Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

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

Persons Soul Cry Tears Sad Sticks Unhappiness Slides Slick Time To Move On

Author:Shannon Hale

“And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.”

Said Struggle Saws Sadness Like You Understood Foolish Hollow

Author:Shannon Hale

“Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.”

Two Cherries Cramming

Book:River Secrets

Source: River Secrets

“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.”

Said Hard Sorry I'm Sorry Straws Dummy Scarecrow

Author:Shannon Hale

“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.”

Children Said Sky Mines Members Hobbies Stopping Loafing

Book:River Secrets

Source: River Secrets

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

Stones Very Good Impression Columns

Author:Shannon Hale

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

People Book Judging I Have Learned Judging A Book By Its Cover

Author:Shannon Hale

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

Way Speak All Things

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

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

Mind Truth Is Agree Guts

Author:Shannon Hale

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

Should Hurt Should I It Hurts I Like Him

Book:Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

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

Choices Sound Becoming Illness Mental Illness

Author:Shannon Hale

“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.”

Knows Real Sometimes Hands Felt Nice Being Nice Daydreaming Something Real

Author:Shannon Hale

“Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.”

Ifs Wells Kind I Can Done Home Lost Bits Can Do Hurt Poor Lucky Breaths Wiser It Hurts Bruised Homecoming

Author:Shannon Hale

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

Author:Shannon Hale

“Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.”

World Years Two Important Real Character Courses Hundred Thirty Daydreaming Old World Fictional Character Important Life

Book:Austenland: A Novel

Source: Austenland: A Novel

“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.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Firsts Lost Sides Terrible Kingdoms I Want You Every Second Lost You

Book:Enna Burning

Source: Enna Burning

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

Happens Capable Bossy

Author:Shannon Hale

“Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--”

People Dislike Adages

Author:Shannon Hale

“Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.”

Years Lost Cry Tales Forgetfulness Lost Years

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped. "You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply.”

Trying Looks Said Hands Found Fingers Dare Breathe

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

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

Knows Know How Persist Stubborn Superpower Mules

Book:The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel

Source: The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel

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

Thinking Should Guy Married Really Great Great Guy

Book:Austenland: A Novel

Source: Austenland: A Novel

“I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.”

Real Water Glasses

Book:Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

“A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.”

Men Feels Heart Mean Children Shows Kings Right Now Roots Spread Wide Feels Right Canopy

Author:Shannon Hale

“Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born”

Born Forests Sauce Save Me

Author:Shannon Hale

“You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.”

Book:Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

“Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident”

Lost Childhood Accidents Tragic Tails Tempted Horns

Book:River Secrets

Source: River Secrets

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

Pleasure Tree Rats

Book:River Secrets

Source: River Secrets

“Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire.”

Firsts Stories Eye Mother Voice Fire Cutting Listening Singing Her Eyes Cricket Aunt Like Her

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?”

Thinking Wells Said Girl Sickness Get Back Stubbornness

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.”

Knows World Light Running Night Stars Felt Dark Saws Sky Understood Deeper Sat Running Away Cried Night Sky Damp

Author:Shannon Hale

“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.”

Wanted Bowls Berries Enticing

Author:Shannon Hale

“The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.”

Lying Girl Three Tree Wind Hair Arms Sitting Roots Legs Weeping Shaking Tangled Arms And Legs

Book:Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

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

Speak Expected Shy Panic

Author:Shannon Hale

“What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?”

Knows Use Know How British Knees

Book:Austenland: A Novel

Source: Austenland: A Novel

About the Author

Born: January 26, 1974
Known for: Author
Quotes: 247

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