The Storybook of Legends Quotes

“I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It’d be like: ‘Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to be loved, so she met a prince and got married and lived Happily Ever After, The End’? That’s not a story; that’s a bumper sticker.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Raven heard a crunch. “Maddie!” said Raven. “You’re not supposed to eat the stone.” “Why not?” said Maddie. “It’s delightfully crunchy.” “How do you even do that?” Raven asked. “I mean, it’s a rock.” Maddie shrugged. “Sometimes things aren’t impossible the first time I try, because I don’t know they’re impossible yet. I probably couldn’t do it again, though.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Sometimes things aren’t impossible the first time I try, because I don’t know they’re impossible yet. I probably couldn’t do it again, though.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“I told everyone you didn’t go poof, but they just looked at me funny,” said Maddie. Cedar shook her head. “You said, ‘Tiny crow crowned unconfused with a cloud.’ ”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Um… I guess that’s that,” said Cerise. “That?” said Maddie. “That is never that. This is that. Or else that is this. And this is definitely not that. So let’s go to the dance.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Every night before bed, her mother had told her a story that should have been frightening: Scary Evil Queen. Huntsman ordered to cut out her heart. Lost in dark woods with grabby trees. Dwarves, dwarves, more dwarves. Old peddler lady giving her a strangling ribbon. Old peddler lady giving her a poisoned comb. Old peddler lady giving her a poisoned apple. Crunch. Gasp. Faint (beautifully). Dead sleep. Cold glass coffin. Empty dreams. Then… kiss. Wake. Prince! Cheering dwarves. Huge choreographed dance number. Happily Ever After.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Aah, woodpecker! Help!” Cedar shouted. “Woodpecker! Girl made of wood! Not a good combo!” “I’ll help you!” Hunter cried. “Here we go,” Cupid said, rubbing her hands together. “It’s shirt-ripping time.” Sure enough, Hunter ripped off his shirt and posed. Invisible horns played a heroic fanfare. Hunter lifted his ax and chased the woodpecker. Which was chasing Cedar. “Aah, ax!” Cedar said, still running. “A woodpecker! And an ax! Aah!”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“So she tried all the magical passwords she could think of. “Abracadabra. Open sesame. Sim salabim. Alakazam. Hocus pocus. Voilà. Please.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Listen to this,” said Maddie. “Cerise Hood. Cedar Wood. Cerise Hood. Cedar Wood. Cedar, you and Cerise have to be friends or your names will get mad and just march right off you!”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Run.” Raven took off, Apple on her heels, screaming as a swarm of flying, crawling, leaping insects chased them. “Aah!” Apple screamed. “Aah! I mean, La la la!” Apple sang desperately. “LA LA LA LA!”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“That’s right! Besides, like I’d ever let my sister drown my pet butterflies. I regularly whip her butt in Grimmnastics class.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Briar thrust a crystal cup with a silver spoon into Apple’s hands. “Whipped air. Try it. Totally invisible and totally good.” Apple dipped the spoon into the empty cup and touched it to her tongue. The nothingness tasted like chocolate-raspberry swirl. “Mm, this is amazing.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Raven mumbled something. “Eh? What was that? Speak up! Don’t mumble like a caterpillar.” “I said, I don’t want to scare them.” Baba Yaga picked up a blue spray bottle and squirted Raven in the face with water, making Raven blink. “This is how I train my cats not to jump up on my spell table. They learn after a while. Maybe you will, too.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“A pod for peas wears hearts on a sleeve.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Yo, yo, her name is Apple, and I can’t grapple with how fine and kind, you’d hafta be blind, yo, blinded by the shine of her mind.
Gotta post a sign sayin’
beware the glare of that fair hair. Can’t bear the care of her stare.
One glance and you’re tranced,
pierced by her lance, made to dance
to the boon of the tune of the girl
with the skin of pearl and golden curl.
She’s Apple, yo,
and this be Humphrey on flow
with mo’ rhymes I can throw
till the day she becomes Snow
till the Happily Ever then
till the chick ’comes a hen.
The.
End.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Pobrecita niña. ¿Tu padre te mintió cuando eras un retoño de bruja? ¿Te aseguró que tenías un buen corazón y que, si querías cuando crecieras podrías llegar a ser tan buena, estúpida y aburrida como él.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Daring was glaring at Raven as if he could shoot arrows with his eyes. And maybe he could. She’d seen him swordfight holding the sword with his feet. And win.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Next Ashlynn walked up the stairs. Apple expected the princess to exhibit the same eagerness, but her steps were slow. The large mirrors hanging from posts around the pedestal broadcast images of Ashlynn’s face to the audience. But the mirrors didn’t show the book, so Apple couldn’t see Ashlynn’s “flash-forward” story, just Ashlynn’s face as she watched it. Her expression was nervous, hopeful, and then… then sad. How could she be sad? Her story ended joyously! It was almost as if Ashlynn had been hoping to see something or someone in her story who didn’t show. Ashlynn took the pen and closed her eyes as she quickly signed.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Raven, lying on the sandy ground, covered in creepy-crawlies. Spiders, cockroaches, termites, ants, crickets—they smother her, nibble on her, devouring her from hair to toenails in seconds, leaving just a skeleton behind. Apple, standing at the podium on Legacy Day. Poof, she disappears. And reappears in a goblin cave. The goblin troop moves in, brandishing salad bowls and chopping knives. Daring Charming, no story to call home, thins and melts into a wisp of a ghost, swimming endlessly through walls. The crowded Charmitorium at Ever After High, Headmaster Grimm on the stage. “And remember, students, no matter what you do, don’t follow the example of the worst, most despised, most selfish character in all of Ever After history—Raven Queen!” “Boo!” the students yell. “Boo!” says the Daring ghost. Apple’s head in a goblin bowl opens her eyes and looks straight at Raven. “Boo!”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“At least it wasn’t raining. It started to rain.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Well, write me into the list of Those Who Don’t Mind a Bit,” said Cupid, eyeing his perfectly toned arms and chest. “My, but he will break a few hearts.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“I’ve been shot through the heart, men! Never have I seen such smoldering beauty.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Cedar groaned and picked up her spoon with her bright blue fingers. While the rest of her was the fiery brown of the cedar wood she’d been carved from, her fingers were covered in blue paint up to her knuckles. You could tell a lot about Cedar’s current art projects by the color of her fingers. She didn’t mind getting messy. She just sanded the paint off.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Dizzy, chilly, and beat, Raven collapsed on her bed. She rolled over, sensing a pea under the mattress. Typical Orientation Week prank. She dug around, found the pea, and tossed it across the room.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Apple’s MirrorPhone played a measure of One Reflection’s single “You Don’t Know You’re Charming” to announce she’d received another hext message.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Everyone's seeing one another not just for who we are but who we'll become.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Sure as a pickle in a hat!" said Maddie. "But it'll work out. Stories always do. And you know which stories I like best? The new ones, the funny ones, the unexpected ones where I don't know what's going to happen next, but I can't wait to turn the page and find out.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“Sure as a pickle in a hat!" said Maddie. "But
it'll work out. Stories always do. And you know
which stories I like best? The new ones, the funny
ones, the unexpected ones where I don't know
what's going to happen next, but I can't wait to turn
the page and find out.”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends

“The end is just the beginning”
― Shannon Hale, The Storybook of Legends