Princess Academy Quotes

“There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“He did a very good impression of a stone column.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Look no farther than your hand,
Make a choice and take a stand.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“No wolf falters before the bite, so strike.
No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing.
No sun pauses before the set, just strike.
No rain delays before the fall, just swing.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“It must be a marvelous thing to feel so sure, to be able to meet someone's eyes and not look away.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Miri woke to the sleepy bleating of a goat. The world was as dark as eyes closed, but perhaps the goats could smell dawn seeping through the cracks in the house's stone walls. Though still half-asleep, she was aware of the late autumn chill hovering just outside her blanket, and she wanted to curl up tighter and sleep like a bear through frost and night and day.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Look no farther than your hand, make a choice and take a stand”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“The next afternoon break, Miri joined the others outside. The sun's glare off the snow made her eyes water, but it seemed the most beautiful day Miri could remember. The sky was achingly blue. The snow that crunched under her boot spread over stone and hillock like spilled cream. The cold made the world feel clean and new, a day for beginnings.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Thinking it's impossible makes it so.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Don't hesitate if you know it's right.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“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, Princess Academy

“If the world looks too big, I'll hold you that much tighter
If the breeze feels too chill, I'll make the fire hotter
If the storm booms too loud, I'll sing to you still louder
I'll always keep you safe, my tiny, precious daughter”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“I don't want a daughter named after a stone," she had said, choosing instead to name her Miri after the flower that conquered rock and climbed to face the sun.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Tomorrow's a red flush in the western sky
Tomorrow's a black hush in the middle night
Tomorrow swears the truth of now, now, and now
In the trembling blue gasp of the morning light”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“I cut all day and I squared all night
And I thought I'd mined the mountain's might
Then I saw all my work by the bright dawn light
The mountain was the world and my labor a mite”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Katar had given her a small gift by opening her heart and showing her pain. Miri tucked the moment in her own heart and hoped somehow to repay.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and . . ." "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“The east says it's dawn
My mouth speaks a yawn
My bed clings to me and begs me to stay
I hear a work song
Say winter is long
I peel myself up and then make away”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“The doings of the quarry had always seemed some bright, forbidden secret. Now it was her secret, and holding it to herself felt warm and delicious, like drinking the last cup of honeyed tea.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Miri laughed in return and felt her face go hot again, and it occurred to her that after so much burning her cheeks should be ashes by now.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Far above the snow clouds, the moon must have been bright and full. Its light bled through the storm, marking each flake with a silvery luster and pouring a pale, peachy glow onto the mountain.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“She looked to her right and saw terror frozen on Britta's and Esa's faces like ice on a windowpane.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Miri's laugh is a tune you love to whistle.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Mount Eskel feels the boots of outsiders.

Mount Eskel won't bear their weight.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy