"She spoke quickly, her tongue feeling like a hummingbird’s wing; she was so afraid of boring him if she took too long."

- Shannon Hale

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

- Shannon Hale

"A daughter is a daydreamer and a night thinker."

- Shannon Hale

"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