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A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

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
Heart
Men
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Children

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Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.
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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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His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.
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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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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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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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Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.
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A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.
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Smell is the voice of the soul.
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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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Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.
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Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
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... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.
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Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.
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...all things speak, in their way, don't they?
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