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

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

Shannon Hale

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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.

important earth stories

Nom, do say something funny so she can admire! by Shannon Hale

Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!

Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just... by Shannon Hale

Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.

smell meat waiting

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.

adorable nurse trying

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

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

inconvenient writing

In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

crazy reading writing

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

A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

heart men children

Over there!" "Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see someth... by Shannon Hale

Over there!" "Where?" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something?

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

responsible sides sleep

...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?

invasion emotional letters

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

indigestion beats said

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 a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

salt wagons thinking

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.

black eye giving

We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

nice real mother

But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.

wall suicide country

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.

treats names want

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than window... by Shannon Hale

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

sky window years

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

princess three eye

My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute. by Shannon Hale

My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.

mama used waiting

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.

character believe book