Quotes from Shannon Hale

If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.

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

Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!

But the hoping, that's what really hurts.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

Isi, I'm trying to say that you've been… no, you're so, you're–" He stopped. "You are," he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply.

It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.

Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Celi, call Nom back and tell him of my need for purple!

A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.

Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?

Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..

Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

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

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

Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.