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I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash? — Robin McKinley

Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded. — Robin McKinley

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all. — Robin McKinley

There are things you don't want to know you can do — Robin McKinley

It is not a comfortable passion. — Robin McKinley

Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn. — Robin McKinley

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. — Robin McKinley

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous. — Robin McKinley

The story is always better than your ability to write it. — Robin McKinley

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?
I sat very diligently, she said. — Robin McKinley

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened. — Robin McKinley

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. — Robin McKinley

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus. — Robin McKinley

It goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself. — Robin McKinley

I have a new theory about algebra," I said. "In going to learn it by osmosis. — Robin McKinley

And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around?

Well. Yes. — Robin McKinley

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink. — Robin McKinley

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often. — Robin McKinley

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face. — Robin McKinley

Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. — Robin McKinley

Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge. — Robin McKinley

Can't all beasts be tamed? — Robin McKinley

Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment.
-Hellhound — Robin McKinley

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe. — Robin McKinley

He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough. — Robin McKinley

Post-traumatic shock, phooey. Seemed to me the trauma was trotting right along with me, like a dog on a leash with its owner. I was the dog. I — Robin McKinley

Cannot a Beast be tamed? — Robin McKinley

Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart. — Robin McKinley

This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master. — Robin McKinley

You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you. — Robin McKinley

There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell. — Robin McKinley

I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,she said. — Robin McKinley

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick. — Robin McKinley

The king will catch us if the sheriff should fail to and then the Saxon race can be symbolically and romantically hung by the neck till dead. — Robin McKinley

But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it. — Robin McKinley

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack. — Robin McKinley

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.
Can I trust him?
What do I have to lose? — Robin McKinley

I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. — Robin McKinley

screen that was longing to give me a lightning-bolt-thunder-roll odin-bloody headache — Robin McKinley

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living. — Robin McKinley

One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams. — Robin McKinley

Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world. — Carrie Vaughn

Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please. — Robin McKinley

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters. — Robin McKinley

There remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week. — Robin McKinley

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough. — Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. — Robin McKinley

I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. — Robin McKinley

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative. — Robin McKinley

And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed. — Robin McKinley

It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn. — Robin McKinley

Fairy godmothers?" said the king dubiously. "We'll have a time getting that past the court council - and the bishop. — Robin McKinley

It is not so easy as running and not running. — Robin McKinley

I long for another human face just as I fear it. — Robin McKinley

I'm your friend, Sunshine," he said. "Everything else is just static on the line. — Robin McKinley

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself. — Robin McKinley

The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil — Robin McKinley

At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart. — Robin McKinley

Evil is a kind of oblivion, having destroyed everything on its way there. I — Robin McKinley

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. — Robin McKinley

I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company. — Robin McKinley

I said with perfect honest, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no. — Robin McKinley

First rule: If your dog doesn't do what you want, it's your fault. — Robin McKinley

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.
Robin — Robin McKinley

I give you a small serenity. — Robin McKinley

No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done- — Robin McKinley

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week. — Robin McKinley

We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay. — Robin McKinley

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line. — Robin McKinley

HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to ... — Robin McKinley

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. — Robin McKinley

She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her. — Robin McKinley

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up. — Robin McKinley

And perhaps it did not matter in what world she belonged if both worlds were marching in step. — Robin McKinley

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it. — Robin McKinley

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. — Robin McKinley

There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about. — Robin McKinley

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for ... — Robin McKinley

But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry. — Robin McKinley

The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto? — Robin McKinley

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life. — Robin McKinley

Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies. - Ossin — Robin McKinley

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket. — Robin McKinley

She was ashamed. She would not
she would not
be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep. — Robin McKinley

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them — Robin McKinley

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are. — Robin McKinley

Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it? — Robin McKinley

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. — Robin McKinley

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. — Robin McKinley

She fell in love with him, and he with her; that's a spell if you like. — Robin McKinley

But he hated to see his people people unhappy
because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one
— Robin McKinley

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it. — Robin McKinley

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things. — Robin McKinley

It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs. — Robin McKinley

including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly
— Robin McKinley

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. — Robin McKinley

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered. — Robin McKinley

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it. — Robin McKinley