"She touched the healthy folds of skin around……" — Shannon Hale
"She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby's neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and thought how people start with wrinkles and end with wrinkles, grow into their skin and then live to grow out of it again."
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Shannon Hale
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184 Quotes by Shannon Hale
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The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an…
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Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.
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Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.
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I do like the world quite a lot.
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I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.
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I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.
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You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
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What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It…
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Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact…
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. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.
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Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born,…
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Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!
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