“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, quote from Princess Academy
“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, quote from Princess Academy
“What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“He did a very good impression of a stone column.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“Look no farther than your hand,
Make a choice and take a stand.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“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.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“No wolf falters before the bite, so strike.
No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing.
No sun pauses before the set, just strike.
No rain delays before the fall, just swing.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“Look no farther than your hand, make a choice and take a stand”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“Miri woke to the sleepy bleating of a goat. The world was as dark as eyes closed, but perhaps the goats could smell dawn seeping through the cracks in the house's stone walls. Though still half-asleep, she was aware of the late autumn chill hovering just outside her blanket, and she wanted to curl up tighter and sleep like a bear through frost and night and day.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“It must be a marvelous thing to feel so sure, to be able to meet someone's eyes and not look away.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“The next afternoon break, Miri joined the others outside. The sun's glare off the snow made her eyes water, but it seemed the most beautiful day Miri could remember. The sky was achingly blue. The snow that crunched under her boot spread over stone and hillock like spilled cream. The cold made the world feel clean and new, a day for beginnings.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and . . ." "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“How can you want to marry someone you've never met?" said Miri. "What if you meet him and do like”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“They walked back through the village, and Miri kept her eyes on the ground before her. The whole world had shifted, and she was not sure she could keep her feet. She was her ma alive again. When Miri returned, she found Marda moved”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
“Britta had a shrewd smile. "I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. Have you heard it? 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. So here's what I'm wondering—if Miri's wings are free, what will she do now?" Esa grinned. "Fly away, Miri bird, fly away!" Miri flapped her arms and cawed. "What are you doing?" said Bena, annoyed. The girls laughed. Where”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Princess Academy
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“No, no,” he said. “She can’t raise it at all. She may only clap. Women must be very careful of their voices. If”
― Geraldine Brooks, quote from Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.”
― Robert Burton, quote from The Anatomy of Melancholy
“She looked up at me with more animation.
"Oh yes, indeed there is. I like playing with my kittens. I have three of them, Spot, Patch and Stripe. Spot has a black spot, but otherwise he is entirely white. Patch has a white patch on his back, and Stripe - "
"Allow me to guess. He has a stripe?"
"Why, have you seen him?"
"No.”
― Amanda Grange, quote from Mr. Darcy's Diary
“don’t play bridge but I’m going to learn. The”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“Blue Duck could never avoid a moment of fear, when his father's eyes became the eyes of a snake. He choked off his insult -- he knew that if he spoke, he might, in an instant, find himself fighting Buffalo Hump. He had seen it before, with other warriors. Someone would say one word too many, would fail to see the snake in his father's eyes, and the next moment Buffalo Hump would be pulling his long bloody knife from between the other warrior's ribs.
Blue Duck waited. He knew that it was not a day to fight his father.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Comanche Moon
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