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I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ... (Rapunzel glares) Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.
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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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Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--
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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.
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Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
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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.
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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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Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.
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It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.
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Will you accompany me in this dance?” he said, bowing and holding out his hand. “No, thank you.” Miri smiled. The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance. Miri laughed self consciously. “I, uh, I was teasing.
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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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The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.
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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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Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.
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Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.
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I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word.
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Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.
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You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.
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I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.
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As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.
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