Wisdom Quote by Shannon Hale — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.”

“You saw my leg?”

“Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.”

“I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.”

“You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”

“Will you accompany me in this dance?” he said, bowing and holding out his hand.”

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”

“To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you’d so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing but the ability to live through it all and not experience a single thing, to eat everything without tasting it at all." Isak’s eyes shone with a desperate need. He wanted, more than anything it seemed, to be like me, when all I wanted was to be like him.”

“Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.”

“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”

“The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.”

“...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.”