320 Quotes by Shannon Hale

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It’s as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don’t want that ache to stop.

What? Don’t British women know how to use their knees?

Smell is the voice of the soul...

And then Rollan reached out and took her hand. His fingers were warm. Meilin had never been so aware of the beating of her heart.

Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can’t turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I’ll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.

No. I’m a wreck,” she said in the squeaky high voice of one who is determined not to cry. “You do not seem like it,” Mrs. Wattlesbrook squeaked back. “Thanks,” Charlotte chirped. “I do yoga. Ninety percent of confidence is posture.

I couldn’t see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike.