Books Quote by Shannon Hale

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was…

— Robert Goolrick

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Often, she was a princess because they were her stories and she wanted to be a princess.”

— C.J. Brightley

“Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always…

— Amit Kalantri

“It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who he was…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“She couldn't be the prince, and she'd never be a princess, and she didn't want to be a woodcutter, so she'd be the witch…

— Terry Pratchett

“The princess stops us walking. She holds the lantern up between us, and she looks at me with the eyes of all the princesses…

— Lauren DeStefano

“They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“...entered the library, and could do nothing but stare in wonder...She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel.”

— Shannon Hale

“I was on the way to becoming a duchess, and I had made the Kingmaker angry. What more could a child of seven have…

— Susan Higginbotham

“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn…

— Mary Balogh

“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were thousands who…

— Parents' National Education Union