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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”

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Shannon Hale

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. more

“They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.”

Order Three Found Lost Months Fingers Lifts Beast Grandmother Buried Inquiry Three Months Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Recycled

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”

People Thinking Heart Long Two Different Reality Pain Left Behinds Too Much Changed Long Time Treats Mad Cake Salt Indifferent Left Behind Choke Think Of You You Changed

Book:Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.”

Play Novel Scene Chapters

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Who is he when he isn't Dauntless, isn't an instructor, isn't Four, isn't anything in particular? Whoever he is, I like him. It's easier to admit that to myself now, in the dark, after all that just happened. He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.”

Knows Needs Kind Strong Dark Four Happened Particular Sweet Easier Smart Brave Saved Treated Gentle Instructors Dauntless I Like Him

Author:Veronica Roth

“it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it”

Crafts Just Do It

Author:Alfred Lansing

“His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion”

Should Waiting Should Have Instinct Thanks Randy Stallions Mares

Author:Larissa Ione

“Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Different Given Differences Absolutes Honestly Primaries Behave Do You Know Absolute Power

Author:Dennis Lehane

“The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.”

Matter Make Sense Things That Matter

Book:The Turtle Diary

Source: The Turtle Diary

“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”

Knows Want Asks Answers Asking

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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