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

Categorized in : Beautiful Girl Kissing

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

vines tears heart

Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word

fierce eye lord

When the mountain quaked Like an elbow's nudge Like a shout that something is wrong The people awoke and Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come

mountain elbows people

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

flower morning sweet

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

white together hair

No matter that we could be beheaded for this,” said Esa. “Heads are overrated.” “Yes, they are so unfashionable,” said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. “This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks.

style matter spring

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.

stew undoing two

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.

bark moss girl

I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

taken sorry promise

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.

tease self hands

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

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

novel knows

Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say tha... by Shannon Hale

Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.

jane haste wanted

I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

giving-up taken real

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiat... by Shannon Hale

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

opiates real practice

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

judgement opinion people

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.

cat dog people

Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words t... by Shannon Hale

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

make-sense faces wind

I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everythin... by Shannon Hale

I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

real

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's... by Shannon Hale

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

real use stories

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?

falling-in-love witty believe