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You've been quiet lately ... but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.

It must be a marvelous thing to feel so sure, to be able to meet someone's eyes and not look away.

What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

It's a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder.

In Gotham, batman just stumbles into crime," said Luther. "Salt lake is annoyingly tame.

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.

Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?

Go get dressed, Eddie," she called out. "If any hopeful murderers attack us, Lizzy has promised to beat them with her curling iron.

Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.

Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness.

Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Here you've been, a spider in the corner, observing, weaving Charlotte's web of mystery.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?

You succeed because you're willing to give everything to your craft- everything!

She knew it! Charlotte just knew it! And now her daughter was boyfriend-less! Yes! Wait-no! Oh no, poor Lu.

I despise rushing headlong into a mystery. Much more satisfying to dip in a toe, test the waters, ease in slowly before we start to swim.

Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Mr. Nobley: I assure you, I am taking an inordinate amount of pleasure from this ball, but none of it has to do with any of these bumblers.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

But man, can she snore," Cedar smiled wistfully, "Do you think when I become a real girl I'll be able to snore, too?

Ease up, nasty little frigid pixies

Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the ashes.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

For Colin Firth:
You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Get that thing out of my chair," said the king. Two soldiers removed Ungolad's body from the throne

Sometimes it seems my identity's a matter of opinion

Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion ...

Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries.

Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic soundtrack.

I've been shot through the heart, men! Never have I seen such smoldering beauty.

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

The End is only the beginning.

Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what.

Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.

The point of education is to learn other ways too. Don't just assume that all you know is right. Learn more and then chose.

I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.

I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna

Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens

Even stories need a chance to sleep.

Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.

I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels. (p. 57).

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

She was not who she'd thought she was. No one was.

Becky, are you studying conversational Yiddish?

No one just falls in love, you idiot.

To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story
begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss.

Rin slept inside the oak's thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.

Am I the moss on your bark, then?" Ani asked.
Enna grabbed her around the waist and shook her affectionately. "You're the mossiest girl I know.

He nodded. And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.

A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.

Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.

Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Twenty-two hours, forty-seven minutes, and eighteen seconds to go!

And with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

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

Well, I don't want to complain," Apple began. "Oh, go ahead and complain. That's why you have a best friend forever after.

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.

That's right! Besides, like I'd ever let my sister drown my pet butterflies. I regularly whip her butt in Grimmnastics class.

I feel like a tiny bug, and the world is a hungry bird looking down at me.

(I love you, you're perfect, you're everything, you toast my marshmallows, baby.)

He is ever inglorious
His laugh is laborious
His smell is notorious
Impale the herring king!

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

Guilt is the hyena that'll lunge from behind and hamstring you.

Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.

As long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL
For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!
REWARD

Hear the leaves applauding
Hear the wind hurrahing
Hear the surf guffawing
The ways of old are dead
The queen has lost her head

Courage is not fearlessness.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

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.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

Just like the old adage
what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

No wolf falters before the bite
So strike
No hawk wavers before the dive
Just strike

Everyone needs a smile and a friend, whether they know it or not.-Shannon Hale

Apple's MirrorPhone played a measure of One Reflection's single "You Don't Know You're Charming" to announce she'd received another hext message.

If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.

We know it's all just daydreaming ... But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff.
Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.

'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by ... kissing him first.

Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.

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