Shannon Hale, 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."
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"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, Book of a Thousand Days
"I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person."
Shannon Hale, 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, 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, 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, Book of a Thousand Days
"My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat."
Shannon Hale, 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, Book of a Thousand Days
"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, 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, Book of a Thousand Days
"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."
Shannon Hale, 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, 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, Book of a Thousand Days
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