320 Quotes by Shannon Hale

A ball – things happen at a ball. Cinderella happened at a ball. Jane might happen.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself – if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That’s the only person I’m trying to please.

Becky, are you studying conversational Yiddish?

That’s the word he’d used – stunning. It’s a difficult word to dismiss. She longed to be that word to someone.

My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don’t hesitate. Leave your great big mark.

Jane caught sight of a very striking Colonel Andrews who, now that she watched him dance, might just be gay.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you’ve traveled with them through every page?

Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. ‘It’s about to get all nonfiction in here’.

More than a thousand days we’ve been together, more than a thousand songs I’ve sung for her, and only now, I think, do I see Saren truly begin to heal.