Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. Shannon Hale More Quotes by Shannon Hale More Quotes From Shannon Hale It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did. Shannon Hale karma magic matter For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri Shannon Hale clever listening thinking They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. Shannon Hale good-life nice together Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone. Shannon Hale floating stones wind 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 careers want littles But the hoping, that's what really hurts. Shannon Hale hurt 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 kissing eye blood Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth. Shannon Hale smoke nightmare smell Smell is the voice of the soul. Shannon Hale smell voice soul ...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first. Shannon Hale kissing girl may I hate them," Enna said. "Whoever is responsible for making me sleep outside without pillows, I hate them." Mmm-hmmm...," Dasha said. Rin had noticed that the Tiran girl often had trouble remembering how to speak in the morning. If Finn were here," Enna continued to mumble as she rewrapped her head cloth, "he'd let me rest my head on his chest at night. Or leg. Or arm. And then he'd find whoever was responsible for the whole sleeping outside with no pillows situation and hold him while I kicked him in the shins. Shannon Hale girl hate morning 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 just-being hurt firsts And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step. Shannon Hale next-steps listening moving Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it. Shannon Hale taste may people He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched. Shannon Hale eye dark heart Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her mouth. Shannon Hale mouths stories mind No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all. Shannon Hale wetness cry comfort 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 flower air beautiful Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat.” Mr. Nobley: “And yet you chat away. Shannon Hale relief missing exercise Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo? Shannon Hale laughed courses sky