You're better than seven years of food. You're better than w... - Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
"You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky."
More quotes by Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."
"I do like the world quite a lot."
"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."
"Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone."