Top 200 Shannon Hale Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Here’s the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.”

— Shannon Hale

102. “I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I’m not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady.”

— Shannon Hale

103. “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

104. “I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.”

— Shannon Hale

105. “You succeed because you’re willing to give everything to your craft- everything!”

— Shannon Hale

106. “I believe reading books is one of the best ways to gain real empathy for people different from ourselves, and helping boys develop empathy for girls is a cause worth fighting for.”

— Shannon Hale

107. “Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.”

— Shannon Hale

108. “Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed.”

— Shannon Hale

109. “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

110. “Here you’ve been, a spider in the corner, observing, weaving Charlotte’s web of mystery.”

— Shannon Hale

111. “Just like the old adage – what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself –.”

— Shannon Hale

112. “I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.”

— Shannon Hale

113. “Think of learning as storing up supplies you may need for a harsh winter.”

— Shannon Hale

114. “Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?”

— Shannon Hale

115. “In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

— Shannon Hale

116. “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

117. “Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.”

— Shannon Hale

118. “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

119. “Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale.”

— Shannon Hale

120. “Ease up, nasty little frigid pixies.”

— Shannon Hale

121. “He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn’t look or act much different.”

— Shannon Hale

122. “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

123. “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

124. “Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. ‘Of course he wasn’t! Who could kill Razo?”

— Shannon Hale

125. “Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I’d outgrown two shoe sizes ago?”

— Shannon Hale

126. “A ball – things happen at a ball. Cinderella happened at a ball. Jane might happen.”

— Shannon Hale

127. “A heart’s a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy’s spread wide. You’re going to show everyone what it means to be a king.”

— Shannon Hale

128. “Sometimes instinct isn’t fancy.”

— Shannon Hale

129. “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

130. “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

131. “And then Rollan reached out and took her hand. His fingers were warm. Meilin had never been so aware of the beating of her heart.”

— Shannon Hale

132. “No. I’m a wreck,” she said in the squeaky high voice of one who is determined not to cry. “You do not seem like it,” Mrs. Wattlesbrook squeaked back. “Thanks,” Charlotte chirped. “I do yoga. Ninety percent of confidence is posture.”

— Shannon Hale

133. “And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.”

— Shannon Hale

134. “Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he’d lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident.”

— Shannon Hale

135. “I don’t want a daughter named after a stone,” she had said, choosing instead to name her Miri after the flower that conquered rock and climbed to face the sun.”

— Shannon Hale

136. “My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don’t hesitate. Leave your great big mark.”

— Shannon Hale

137. “What? Don’t British women know how to use their knees?”

— Shannon Hale

138. “How inconvenient clever women must be to men like Mr. Mallery. If only she’d been frivolous, light-minded, vapid even. Generally speaking, when a man is a murderer and a woman uncovers the unmistakable clue pointing to him, it would be so much easier if that woman were dull-witted. A clever woman can get herself killed.”

— Shannon Hale

139. “No chance she’d allow any man to see her naked besides the one who’d gotten her pregnant four times. You broke it, you bought it, baby.”

— Shannon Hale

140. “I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.”

— Shannon Hale

141. “Duty doesn’t always fit comfortably.”

— Shannon Hale

142. “Jane caught sight of a very striking Colonel Andrews who, now that she watched him dance, might just be gay.”

— Shannon Hale

143. “Far above the snow clouds, the moon must have been bright and full. Its light bled through the storm, marking each flake with a silvery luster and pouring a pale, peachy glow onto the mountain.”

— Shannon Hale

144. “I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.”

— Shannon Hale

145. “Razo wasn’t good at anything except maybe cramming two cherries up one nostril.”

— Shannon Hale

146. “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

147. “There’s nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you’ve decided to hate.”

— Shannon Hale

148. “You’re better than seven years of food. You’re better than windows. You’re even better than the sky.”

— Shannon Hale

149. “Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!”

— Shannon Hale

150. “Becky, are you studying conversational Yiddish?”

— Shannon Hale