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Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Books
Read
Lives
Live
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Life
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Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her mouth.
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She dismounted, grabbed Enna's hand so tightly that she drew blood with her fingernails, walked straight into the nearest cottage, and plopped down on a bed. Enna nodded to the startled cottage dwellers. It's the queen, you see, said Enna. She's going to have a baby in your house. You don't mind?
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If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.
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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.
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It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.
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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
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He did a very good impression of a stone column.
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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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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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...all things speak, in their way, don't they?
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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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Smell is the voice of the soul.
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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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WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD
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... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
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How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme. Bizarre and adorable? Just like you. With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.
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She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.
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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.
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He nodded. And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.
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Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.
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