“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“I do like the world quite a lot.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“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, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“But the hoping, that's what really hurts.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“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, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck. How can I describe the scent of his skin? He smells something like cinnamon-- brown and dry and sweet and warm. Ancestors, is it wrong for me to imagine laying my head on his chest and closing my eyes and breathing in his smell?”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“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, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“Smell is the voice of the soul...”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“I was thinking how you can't tell if a person's beautiful or not by her shadow...”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“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, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“Tegus, I'm leaving this book behind for you, so you will know the why of it all, and maybe you'll forgive me, or maybe you'll think me false and reprehensible. You'd be justified. I couldn't stand the thought of your reading all my words unless I knew for certain that I'd never have to face you again, so please don't look for me. If you read the book in its entirety, you'll know for truth who is Lady Saren. And I guess you'll also know that I'm a silly girl who writes down every word you said to me.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“Khan Tegas never looked at me. I'm a mucker maid. I guess I needed to be reminded of that. So, good. Fine. 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, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“I held her head to my shoulder, rocking her, rubbing her back. Poor thing, I don't think she know where to put the whole world.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“Sometimes I think they're all ridiculous. There I was, a sensible person with thoughts in my head, offering a solution. And they wouldn't listen. What aggravation, to believe I can help and yet not be allowed. -Dashti”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“Today I keep thinking of all the people who have left and never returned — my brothers, Khan Tegus, our guards, this entire city. What a strange, dark world that swallows people whole.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“Who am I to tell a man to live? Who am I to claim the powers of the Ancestors? I moved aside so the shawman could have more room to do his holy work. He's climbed the Scared Mountain and seen the face of the Ancestors. I have no place beside him. -Dashti”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“You slew Khasar, you healed me, and you have perfect ankles. I really don't think this is a question we need to debate. -Khan Tegus”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“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, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
“I think it's lovely. I mean..." I returned my gaze to the fire, because it was easier to talk to him that way. "What I mean to say is, it's lovely to think of your mother holding her first baby, and looking at your fingers and toes, your eyes, your lips, and saying, 'Perfect. He's perfect. My Tegus.' -Dashti”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
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“Suddenly…a sound…the strangest, undoubtedly, that these lonely cliffs of France had ever heard, broke the silent solemnity of the shore. So strange a sound was it that the gentle breeze ceased to murmur, the tiny pebbles to roll down the steep incline! So strange, that Marguerite, wearied, overwrought as she was, thought that the beneficial unconsciousness of the approach of death was playing her half-sleeping senses a weird and elusive trick. It was the sound of a good, solid, absolutely British “Damn!”
― Emmuska Orczy, quote from The Scarlet Pimpernel
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, quote from The Prince
“Breeze strolled over to the table and chose a seat with his characteristic decorum. The portly man raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. 'I see that my period of intellectual respite has come to an end.'
Ham smiled. 'I thought up a couple beastly questions while I was gone, and I've been saving them just for you, Breeze.'
'I'm dying of anticipation,' Breeze said. He turned his cane toward Lestibournes. 'Spook, drink.'
Spook rushed over and fetched Breeze a cup of wine.
'He's such a fine lad,' Breeze noted, accepting the drink. 'I barely even have to nudge him Allomantically. If only the rest of you ruffians were so accommodating.'
Spook frowned. 'Niceing the not on the playing without.'
'I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.'
Kelsier rolled his eyes. 'Losing the stress on the nip,' he said. 'Notting without the needing of care.'
'Riding the rile of the rids to the right,' Spook said with a nod.
'What are you two babbling about?' Breeze said testily.
'Wasing the was of brightness,' Spook said. 'Nip the having of wishing of this.'
'Ever wasing the doing of this,' Kelsier agreed.
'Ever wasing the wish of having the have,' Ham added with a smile. 'Brighting the wish of wasing the not.'
Breeze turned to Dockson with exasperation. 'I believe our companions have finally lost their minds, dear friend.'
Dockson shrugged. Then, with a perfectly straight face, he said, 'Wasing not of wasing is.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from The Final Empire
“You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Hopeless
“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from High Fidelity
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