Shannon Hale
"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears."
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"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears."
"دعها تنساب، دعها تخرج كلها. فالشقاء لا يلتصق بروحٍ زلقتها الدموع."
Shannon Hale
Princess Academy
"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."
"أغلقت الكتاب وأسندت خدها عليه. كان لا يزال يحمل عبق المكتبة، غبارها وجلدها وصمغ تجليدها وورقها العتيق، كتاب واحد يحمل رائحة المئات."
Shannon Hale
The Goose Girl
"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."
"أرى شخصيًا أن "الشباب اليافعين" (Young Adult) تصنيف اعتباطي، لا يعني سوى أن الكتاب يمكن أن يستمتع به أي قارئ، أو أن شخصيته المحورية لم تبلغ تمام الرشد بعد، أو أنه ليس مملًا حقًا."
Shannon Hale
"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."
"كانت أمي تقول: لا يمكنك أن تلمح روح أحدهم إلا بعد ألف يوم من معرفته."
Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days
"Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..."(Rapunzel glares)"Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that."
"أهلاً، الأيام عصيبة، وثلاثون قطعة ذهبية يمكنها أن تفعل الكثير من الخير. لكنني أظن أنكِ لا تعرفين شيئًا عن الحاجة إلى المال، بما أنكِ نشأتِ كأميرة صغيرة..." (تحدق رابونزل بغضب) "أسيرة. أعني، أسيرة! أسيرة في برج، يا له من عار ذلك."
Shannon Hale
"I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous."
"كنت أظن أنني أرغب في العيش متحررًا من قفصي الصغير الرتيب، لكن العالم الخارجي كان يزداد خطورة وشعورًا بالتهديد."
Shannon Hale
"Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare."
Shannon Hale
"I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose."
Shannon Hale
"...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don’t think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn’t any plans on sharing our bed."
Shannon Hale
"Rin thought of the crossbow bolt. Of the whoosh and sting of wind and fire heat and the man who would have killed her. Of pushing in front of Enna. Of almost dying. Of home and Ma and being farther away than the lands in tales, and maybe never going home. Of standing by a strange tree in a faraway wood with girls who spoke the language of fire. Of a queen of Kel who wanted them dead."
Shannon Hale
"Life feels like fall of itself."'A dream within a dream."And I want to wake up."
Shannon Hale
"Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly."No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?"
Shannon Hale
"Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't."
Shannon Hale
"Over there!" "Where" Enna asked in mock panic "Do you see something?"
Shannon Hale
"I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna"
Shannon Hale
"The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper."
Shannon Hale
"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."
Shannon Hale
"I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles."
Shannon Hale
"The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am."
Shannon Hale
"Being a writer is a good, good thing."
Shannon Hale
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