320 Quotes by Shannon Hale

A heart’s a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy’s spread wide. You’re going to show everyone what it means to be a king.

They weren’t nice words he said. He could’ve lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. ‘Of course he wasn’t! Who could kill Razo?

Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens.

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

Miri woke to the sleepy bleating of a goat. The world was as dark as eyes closed, but perhaps the goats could smell dawn seeping through the cracks in the house’s stone walls. Though still half-asleep, she was aware of the late autumn chill hovering just outside her blanket, and she wanted to curl up tighter and sleep like a bear through frost and night and day.

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.

I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.