Quotes from Shannon Hale

She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady

WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.

Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna

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.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.

Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.

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.

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

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.

I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.

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

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

Life feels like fall of itself.""'A dream within a dream.""And I want to wake up.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

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.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.