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Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
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Smell is the voice of the soul.
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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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I always knew it was ill-fated, but he truly believed I would be his bride. I guess I'd never realized that before. He had taken my mucker hand and looked at my mottled face and believed we would wed. And he hadn't seemed sorry. In fact, he'd swooped me up in a corridor and kissed me. That set me to crying.
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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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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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Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.
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Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.
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