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Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.

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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Guts
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Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.
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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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Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.
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Your head will be fine,” said Miri. “It’s your neck you should worry about.
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Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
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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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Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
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Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.
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I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.
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Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.
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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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Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?
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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.
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She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.
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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.
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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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Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born
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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.
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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.
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Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.
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