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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.

Shannon Hale

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
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Carry
Stones
Gets
Leafs
Wind
Leaf
Inside
Threatening
Away
Floating
Better
Stone
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Fancy

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