320 Quotes by Shannon Hale

The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

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.

Just like the old adage – what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself –.

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

She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn’t matter how it happened, just that it did.

Maybe T-shirts should stick to something obvious, like i’m a girl or 80% water or likely to breathe.

Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn’t be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn’t.