Quote

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

Shannon Hale

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Decided
Listening
Move
Steps
Ready
Start
Moving
Remade
Next
Step

More quotes by Shannon Hale

Image
Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.
Shannon Hale
Image
Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.
Shannon Hale
Image
And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.
Shannon Hale
Image
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.
Shannon Hale
Image
If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.
Shannon Hale
Image
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.
Shannon Hale
Image
It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.
Shannon Hale
Image
... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
Shannon Hale
Image
Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.
Shannon Hale
Image
As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.
Shannon Hale
Image
They 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
Image
For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining. Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri
Shannon Hale
Image
... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.
Shannon Hale
Image
There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.
Shannon Hale
Image
Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?
Shannon Hale
Image
The 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
Image
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.
Shannon Hale
Image
There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.
Shannon Hale
Image
My friends call me by my name. You don't have any friends. I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.
Shannon Hale
Image
No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.
Shannon Hale