320 Quotes by Shannon Hale

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.

She made herself take two deep-rooted yoga breaths, smiled back, and thought of men in breeches.

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.

Here’s the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

Sometimes instinct isn’t fancy.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you’re tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

I held her head to my shoulder, rocking her, rubbing her back. Poor thing, I don’t think she know where to put the whole world.

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.