Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
("Book of a Thousand Days")
More Quotes from Shannon Hale:
They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down.Shannon Hale
Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.
Shannon Hale
She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.
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
You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.
Shannon Hale
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck. How can I describe the scent of his skin? He smells something like cinnamon-- brown and dry and sweet and warm. Ancestors, is it wrong for me to imagine laying my head on his chest and closing my eyes and breathing in his smell?
Shannon Hale
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Soul QuotesHaving reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
Sue Grafton
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
Thomas Brooks
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
Mary Lou Retton