T.W. Shannon Quotes

Of course they remember. But it's not gonna be about revenge; it's gonna be about the Big Ten championship.

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.

I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

I'm a big country fan.

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady

I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

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.

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

Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word

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

He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.

If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.

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.

Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.

Your head will be fine,” said Miri. “It’s your neck you should worry about.

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

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

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

When the mountain quaked Like an elbow's nudge Like a shout that something is wrong The people awoke and Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

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.

Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

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

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

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

A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

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

Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.

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

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

I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound

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

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

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