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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
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Fantasy Author
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard. LIVER. Good one. Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect? Life Invasion. Like it. Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport. Doesn't that spell OLIVER?
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I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.
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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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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.
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As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.
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The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty
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Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
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Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.
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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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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.
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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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No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike
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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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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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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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Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.
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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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Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.
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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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Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.
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