Quote

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.

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
Face
Dressing
Faces
Impatient
Woman
Halloween
Like
Seat
Seats
Patience
Patient
Gestured
Sort
Dressings

More quotes by 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
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.
Shannon Hale
Image
Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.
Shannon Hale
Image
I know I would crumble if I lost you.
Shannon Hale
Image
I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.
Shannon Hale
Image
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
Shannon Hale
Image
Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.
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
They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down.
Shannon Hale
Image
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.
Shannon Hale
Image
The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, Enna, you might watch your language. Enna grimaced. I was. You should hear my thoughts.
Shannon Hale
Image
Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.
Shannon Hale
Image
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.
Shannon Hale
Image
She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound
Shannon Hale
Image
... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.
Shannon Hale
Image
Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--
Shannon Hale
Image
Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep.
Shannon Hale
Image
Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.
Shannon Hale
Image
Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.
Shannon Hale
Image
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
Shannon Hale