Quotes from Shannon Hale

But really, if you have the option to laugh, why ever hold it back?

Fans outside were screaming. Through the white noise of hollers and hoots emerged a rhythmic shout. Becky strained to understand. "Felix, they are chanting your name." Felix nodded. "You see, this is exactly why I need you here." "To tell you what they're chanting?" "To laugh at it, darling. Or I might take it seriously.

That swindler, he tricked my ma and got away with it too. But he didn't even slow her down. It's good to cry a bit,'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is tough, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.

Ten thousand square feet? Do you really need ten thousand square feet? You both take up about ten square feet with your arms outstretched, spinning in circles." Felix said, "The west wing is for Celeste's wardrobe." Celeste said, "And the east wing is for Felix's ego.

Well, I don't want to complain," Apple began. "Oh, go ahead and complain. That's why you have a best friend forever after.

and curiouser. Maddie supposed she would never totally understand this nonsensical world

If you two are done playing kissy-face," she said, tugging on the rope.

I should go," said Miri. Timon stepped forward

Would you prefer being baked to death under the sun or eaten alive by ants?

so I told her to go to... someplace less nice

Boys need to talk more. Boys need to say things and not assume things. You and my pa and Steffan and everyone, you're going to make us girls insane!

Is it morning, or are we dead? 'cause I feel dead." "Nope, sadly it's just morning.

Penny Dogs are literally demons in fur disguises!

Some people do have faces like that. Though I've been told mine is one, and I disagree. I have never wanted to punch myself in the

Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable?

They were not pursuing the bandits. Miri felt so relieved she began to cry behind closed eyes. "She's weeping from fright," Miri heard someone whisper. "Poor delicate creature.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn. The question is, are we smart enough to figure for ourselves?

She knew her mom just wanted to protect her, and she generally preferred staying in and playing on her laptop anyway, but the maternal protectiveness was really inconvenient when she was needed to take down a Hydra cell operating out of the local mall.

Acaso es culpa mía haber nacido para ser heroína? Todo el mundo representa el papel que se le ha sido asignado, fin del cuento.

And Pride and Prejudice was the most stunning, bite-your-hand romance ever, the kind that stared straight into Jane's soul and made her shudder.

Well, the rain made them a mess, the flowers, half of them bald of petals and the stems weak as noodles, and I was beginning to think that flowers were a silly idea, that you'd think, I don't know what, but I kept them all week because the last couple of days I couldn't escape to come and explain, and yesterday the flowers just flat died. So when I left today I didn't have any flowers, and wasn't sure I'd find you anyhow, so I grabbed what I could find, and it was food.

don't want you anywhere near this story. It's too dangerous. I don't get why you and the other Narrators don't want this story to be told. Draculaura and Frankie will do whatever they're going to do whether we narrate it or not.

Today I keep thinking of all the people who have left and never returned — my brothers, Khan Tegus, our guards, this entire city. What a strange, dark world that swallows people whole.

Who am I to tell a man to live? Who am I to claim the powers of the Ancestors? I moved aside so the shawman could have more room to do his holy work. He's climbed the Scared Mountain and seen the face of the Ancestors. I have no place beside him. -Dashti