110+ Shannon Hale Quotes On Friendship, Fantasy And Humor

Shannon Hale is an American author of young adult and children's literature. She is best known for her Newbery Honor-winning novel Princess Academy and the New York Times best-selling series The Books of Bayern. She has also written several graphic novels, including Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Shannon Hale on love, friendship, fantasy.

Top 10 Shannon Hale Quotes

1. All I've ever wanted was to be near you.
2. It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.
3. Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.
4. Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.
5. Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.
6. ... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
7. Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.
8. I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.
9. 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.
10. I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

Shannon Hale Short Quotes

• For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.
• . . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.
• Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
• Smell is the voice of the soul.
• Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born
• My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.
• But the hoping, that's what really hurts.
• Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.
• Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.
• I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.

Shannon Hale Quotes About Love

Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens — Shannon Hale

...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don’t think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn’t any plans on sharing our bed. — Shannon Hale

Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion. — Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale Quotes About World

He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you. — Shannon Hale

A little snark, properly directed, can change the world. — Shannon Hale

I do like the world quite a lot. — Shannon Hale

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate. — Shannon Hale

Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't. — Shannon Hale

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green. — Shannon Hale

Shannon Hale Famous Quotes And Sayings

Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore With one great rip they formed the shore Where heavy boots left prints so deep Blue lakes remain 'tween summits steep The giants fought beneath our skies And from their bones our mountains rise — Shannon Hale

The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts. — Shannon Hale

She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together — Shannon Hale

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. — Shannon Hale

I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you? — Shannon Hale

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little — Shannon Hale

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. — Shannon Hale

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. — Shannon Hale

He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched. — Shannon Hale

Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense. — Shannon Hale

How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells. — Shannon Hale

She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady — Shannon Hale

Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth. — Shannon Hale

I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word. — 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

If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price. — Shannon Hale

They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down. — Shannon Hale

Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand. — Shannon Hale

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart — Shannon Hale

A heart is a heart in a child or a man. — Shannon Hale

If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours. — Shannon Hale

I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine." "Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short. — Shannon Hale

He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different. — Shannon Hale

She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place. — Shannon Hale

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. — Shannon Hale

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day. — Shannon Hale

Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really? — Shannon Hale

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please. — Shannon Hale

Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself-- — Shannon Hale

I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna — Shannon Hale

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident — Shannon Hale

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

Will you accompany me in this dance?” he said, bowing and holding out his hand. “No, thank you.” Miri smiled. The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance. Miri laughed self consciously. “I, uh, I was teasing. — Shannon Hale

I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy. — Shannon Hale

...all things speak, in their way, don't they? — Shannon Hale

Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire. — Shannon Hale

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 — Shannon Hale

She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days. — Shannon Hale

They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh. — Shannon Hale

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

I know I would crumble if I lost you. — Shannon Hale

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57). — Shannon Hale

...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first. — Shannon Hale

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient. — Shannon Hale

Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring. — Shannon Hale

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women. — Shannon Hale

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat? — Shannon Hale

The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty — Shannon Hale

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale

The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind. — Shannon Hale

Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get. — Shannon Hale

Am I the moss on your bark, then?" Ani asked. Enna grabbed her around the waist and shook her affectionately. "You're the mossiest girl I know. — Shannon Hale

Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his hands, forming their size and shape from the air. "They were yellow, and smallish, and had lots of petals." "Thank you," she said. "They were beautiful. — Shannon Hale

You can be who you will,” he repeated. His voice softened. “And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you. — Shannon Hale

Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding. — Shannon Hale

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. — Shannon Hale

You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg. — Shannon Hale

The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween. — Shannon Hale

Truth is when your mind and your gut agree. — Shannon Hale

...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER? — Shannon Hale

I always knew it was ill-fated, but he truly believed I would be his bride. I guess I'd never realized that before. He had taken my mucker hand and looked at my mottled face and believed we would wed. And he hadn't seemed sorry. In fact, he'd swooped me up in a corridor and kissed me. That set me to crying. — Shannon Hale

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet. — Shannon Hale

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once. — Shannon Hale

My friends call me by my name." "You don't have any friends." "I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong. — Shannon Hale

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. — Shannon Hale

Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late. — Shannon Hale

... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached out, and she thought he meant to grab her straw or perhaps yank her hair as he used to when they were little. But her put his hand behind her head and, leaning forward, pulled her face to his. He kissed her. One long, slow kiss. — Shannon Hale

Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that? — Shannon Hale

I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley — Shannon Hale

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears. — Shannon Hale

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. — Shannon Hale

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop. — Shannon Hale

Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue. — Shannon Hale

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. — Shannon Hale

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down. — Shannon Hale

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

... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens. — Shannon Hale

WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD — Shannon Hale

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

Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers. I'd like it to have a beginning as grand as a ball and an ending in a whisper, like a mother tucking in a child for sleep. — 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 returned his attention ot his horse. “She’s all right.” “Really? Just all right?” Finn shrugged. Razo rolled his eyes. “What am I saying? He doesn’t think any girl is pretty but Enna.” “Are there any girls but Enna?” Finn called back. “There’d better be. — Shannon Hale

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. — Shannon Hale

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! — Shannon Hale

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

Life Lessons by Shannon Hale

1. Shannon Hale's work emphasizes the importance of standing up for yourself and believing in yourself, no matter the odds.
2. She also shows that it is possible to find success and happiness through hard work and dedication.
3. Finally, her stories demonstrate the power of friendship and the strength of family bonds.