02UndatedJane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
03UndatedDo you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
04UndatedMiri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and leaping out unexpectedly. Words were slippery and alive; words wrestled out of her grip and became something new. Words were dangerous.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
05UndatedThat year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of the river, long and wet and cold, the aunt looked from her windows to the walls around her and imagined another winter inside them. She began to see the world as a bird sees bars, and she scratched her arms beneath her sleeves.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
06Undated...even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
07UndatedLife feels like fall of itself.”“'A dream within a dream.”“And I want to wake up.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
08UndatedMaybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
09UndatedThey 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.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
10UndatedI wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
11UndatedA cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
12UndatedIf it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
13UndatedRin thought of the crossbow bolt. Of the whoosh and sting of wind and fire heat and the man who would have killed her. Of pushing in front of Enna. Of almost dying. Of home and Ma and being farther away than the lands in tales, and maybe never going home. Of standing by a strange tree in a faraway wood with girls who spoke the language of fire. Of a queen of Kel who wanted them dead.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
14Undated...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don’t think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn’t any plans on sharing our bed.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
15UndatedI’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
17UndatedDon't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion...Shannon Hale / quote ↗
18UndatedBriar stood, pushing up her sleeves. 'It's about to get all nonfiction in here'.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
19UndatedAni saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
20UndatedThe snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
22UndatedWe were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
24UndatedReading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.Shannon Hale / quote ↗
