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Shannon Hale

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01Undated

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down.

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04Undated

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

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05Undated

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

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06Undated

I do like the world quite a lot.

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07Undated

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

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08Undated

Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

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09Undated

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.

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10Undated

Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.

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11Undated

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

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12Undated

What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me.I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.

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13Undated

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

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14Undated

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.

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15Undated

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

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16Undated

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

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17Undated

Look no farther than your hand,Make a choice and take a stand.

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18Undated

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

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19Undated

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.

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20Undated

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

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21Undated

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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22Undated

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.

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23Undated

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

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24Undated

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.

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