Shannon Hale, Book Of A Thousand Days Quotes
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.
There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.
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.
I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.
