{"author":"Shannon Hale","author_id":"Shannon+Hale","total_quotes":94,"quotes":[{"text":"I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["books","humor"],"id":1858,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["dreams","reality","truth","waking"],"id":3695,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"Being a writer is a good, good thing.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["books","story","writing"],"id":5935,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["beautiful","prose","snow"],"id":8829,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["crying","hold-on","pain"],"id":13429,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"But Princess Magnolia wore glass slippers on weekdays. Princess Magnolia was afraid of snails. Sunlight made Princess Magnolia sneeze. And at the moment, the Princess in Black was hog-tying a monster.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["cute","humor","humorous"],"id":17115,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. 'It's about to get all nonfiction in here'.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["humorous"],"id":20129,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and leaping out unexpectedly. Words were slippery and alive; words wrestled out of her grip and became something new. Words were dangerous.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["numbers","truth","words"],"id":23913,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"You saw my leg?'How can a man help what he sees?' he said. 'And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["garet","horse","humor","isi","leg"],"id":33210,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"},{"text":"Ashlynn washed her face, put on an apron, and then opened wide the door to her shoe closet. This princess wouldn't care if she wore a burlap sack every day, so long as she had dozens of footwear choices. Today she settled on a pair of scrappy teal wedges and went to start breakfast. Even though her father's grand house came fully stocked with servants, her mother believed in good, solid, character-forming chores. After all, Ashlynn would inherit her mother's story and become the next Cinderella someday, and there would be lots of floors to mop and hearths to sweep her Happily Ever After.","author":"Shannon Hale","tags":["ashlynn-ella","cinderella","fairytale","family","footwear","inheritance","princess"],"id":44297,"author_id":"Shannon+Hale"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":94,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}