Shannon Hale

“The End… is only the beginning.”

— Shannon Hale

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

— Shannon Hale

“At least it wasn’t raining. It started to rain.”

— Shannon Hale

“How's your love life?" "I'm on the wagon.”

— Shannon Hale

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale

“Without hope, it was impossible to fantasize.”

— Shannon Hale

What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

— Shannon Hale

Smell is the voice of the soul...

— Shannon Hale

“How can you want to marry someone you've never met?" said Miri. "What if you meet him and do like”

— Shannon Hale

Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

— 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.

— Shannon Hale

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be…

— Shannon Hale

“Sometimes doing the right thing was hard… and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.”

— Shannon Hale

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.

— Shannon Hale

“The stoniest of greens Plague queens not yet queens Just one beneath can steal the sleep Of maidens counting sheep”

— Shannon Hale

“That's the word he'd used - stunning. It's a difficult word to dismiss. She longed to be that word to someone.”

— Shannon Hale

“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used…

— Shannon Hale

“Listen to this,” said Maddie. “Cerise Hood. Cedar Wood. Cerise Hood. Cedar Wood. Cedar, you and Cerise have to be friends or…

— Shannon Hale

It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in…

— Shannon Hale

Will you accompany me in this dance?” he said, bowing and holding out his hand. “No, thank you.” Miri smiled. The prince…

— Shannon Hale

“Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness.”

— Shannon Hale

Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was…

— Shannon Hale

“Tis I, my sweet, your rough-and-ready man Well hid by night to beg your fine white hand Though king of bandits, draped…

— Shannon Hale

...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I…

— Shannon Hale

“Mr. Nobley: "Then I must stay?" Miss Erstwhile: "Unless you want to risk me accusing you of ungentleman-like behavior at dinner, yes,…

— Shannon Hale

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But…

— Shannon Hale

Gerti didn’t ask for help.” Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. “It was my fault.” “So it was. Now…

— Shannon Hale

“That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of…

— Shannon Hale

Finn, do you see the lias—whatever, the orange-haired girl?” Razo Gestured ahead. “Do you think she’s pretty?” Finn glanced Dasha’s way, then…

— Shannon Hale

“What a noise we'll make among the drab and dull, how we'll...wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply…

— Shannon Hale

For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed…

— Shannon Hale

... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at…

— Shannon Hale

“Ashlynn washed her face, put on an apron, and then opened wide the door to her shoe closet. This princess wouldn't care…

— Shannon Hale

“Tell me something true about you.” “Okay …” She mentally rifled through birthplace (Portland, Oregon), college major (sociology), astrological sign (Virgo), favorite…

— Shannon Hale

“‎"Repeat that?" "It's National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Didn't you know?" "Somehow I missed the memo." "You mean, 'Somehow I missed…

— Shannon Hale

“During Snow White's story, her mother had somehow survived sharing a castle with the Greatest Evil the World Has Ever Known and…

— Shannon Hale

What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and…

— Shannon Hale

“I think you just complimented me," said Jane. "You should take better care next time." The music had started, the couples had…

— Shannon Hale

“Raven, lying on the sandy ground, covered in creepy-crawlies. Spiders, cockroaches, termites, ants, crickets—they smother her, nibble on her, devouring her from…

— Shannon Hale

I hate them," Enna said. "Whoever is responsible for making me sleep outside without pillows, I hate them." Mmm-hmmm...," Dasha said. Rin…

— Shannon Hale