320 Quotes by Shannon Hale

Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I’d outgrown two shoe sizes ago?

I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else’s story all your life.

Felix can’t act his way out of a box.” “Boxes are tricky,” Felix said, frowning. “And sometimes they’re taped shut.

I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I’m not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that’s so near how the conversation went, I’m going to call it truth.

Her smile was peculiar – it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.

Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek’s blush is as false as her word.

Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.