Quotes From "Book Of A Thousand Days" By Shannon Hale

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than...
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You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky. Shannon Hale
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I do like the world quite a lot. Shannon Hale
There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight...
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There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate. Shannon Hale
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a...
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Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. Shannon Hale
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to...
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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
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this....
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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
Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose...
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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
My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person. Shannon Hale
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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