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Robin McKinley quotes: I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash? I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?
Robin McKinley quotes: Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded. Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded.
Robin McKinley quotes: He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all. He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.
Robin McKinley quotes: There are things you don't want to know you can do There are things you don't want to know you can do
Robin McKinley quotes: It is not a comfortable passion. It is not a comfortable passion.
Robin McKinley quotes: Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn. Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: [Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous. [Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.
Robin McKinley quotes: The story is always better than your ability to write it. The story is always better than your ability to write it.
Robin McKinley quotes: All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?I sat very diligently, she said. All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?
I sat very diligently, she said.
Robin McKinley quotes: Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened. 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 quotes: Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.
Robin McKinley quotes: Because she was a princess she had a pegasus. Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.
Robin McKinley quotes: And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around?Well. Yes. And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around?

Well. Yes.
Robin McKinley quotes: I have a new theory about algebra," I said. "In going to learn it by osmosis. I have a new theory about algebra," I said. "In going to learn it by osmosis.
Robin McKinley quotes: Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face. Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.
Robin McKinley quotes: If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink. 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 quotes: It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often. It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
Robin McKinley quotes: As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.
Robin McKinley quotes: He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough. He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.
Robin McKinley quotes: Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment.-Hellhound Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment.
-Hellhound
Robin McKinley quotes: Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe. Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.
Robin McKinley quotes: Can't all beasts be tamed? Can't all beasts be tamed?
Robin McKinley quotes: 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 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 quotes: Cannot a Beast be tamed? Cannot a Beast be tamed?
Robin McKinley quotes: 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 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 quotes: Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge. Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.
Robin McKinley quotes: This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master. This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.
Robin McKinley quotes: You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you. You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you.
Robin McKinley quotes: There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell. 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 quotes: I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,she said. I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,she said.
Robin McKinley quotes: Betrayal would be a different sort of sick. Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it. But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.
Robin McKinley quotes: Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack. Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack.
Robin McKinley quotes: Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.Can I trust him?What do I have to lose? Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.
Can I trust him?
What do I have to lose?
Robin McKinley quotes: I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself.
Robin McKinley quotes: screen that was longing to give me a lightning-bolt-thunder-roll odin-bloody headache screen that was longing to give me a lightning-bolt-thunder-roll odin-bloody headache
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself. It goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.
Robin McKinley quotes: Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please. Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please.
Robin McKinley quotes: Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters. Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough. You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. 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 quotes: He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative. He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.
Robin McKinley quotes: And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed. 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 quotes: It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn. It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn.
Robin McKinley quotes: Fairy godmothers?" said the king dubiously. "We'll have a time getting that past the court council - and the bishop. Fairy godmothers?" said the king dubiously. "We'll have a time getting that past the court council - and the bishop.
Robin McKinley quotes: One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams. 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 quotes: It is not so easy as running and not running. It is not so easy as running and not running.
Robin McKinley quotes: I long for another human face just as I fear it. I long for another human face just as I fear it.
Robin McKinley quotes: I'm your friend, Sunshine," he said. "Everything else is just static on the line. I'm your friend, Sunshine," he said. "Everything else is just static on the line.
Robin McKinley quotes: I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself. I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.
Robin McKinley quotes: The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Evil is a kind of oblivion, having destroyed everything on its way there. I Evil is a kind of oblivion, having destroyed everything on its way there. I
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company. I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company.
Robin McKinley quotes: I said with perfect honest, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no. I said with perfect honest, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.
Robin McKinley quotes: First rule: If your dog doesn't do what you want, it's your fault. First rule: If your dog doesn't do what you want, it's your fault.
Robin McKinley quotes: I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. Robin I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.
Robin
Robin McKinley quotes: I give you a small serenity. I give you a small serenity.
Robin McKinley quotes: No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done- 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 quotes: When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week. 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 quotes: We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay. We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.
Robin McKinley quotes: he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line. 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 quotes: HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to ... HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to ...
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her. She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her.
Robin McKinley quotes: Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up. Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.
Robin McKinley quotes: And perhaps it did not matter in what world she belonged if both worlds were marching in step. And perhaps it did not matter in what world she belonged if both worlds were marching in step.
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.
Robin McKinley quotes: There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about. There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.
Robin McKinley quotes: Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for ... Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for ...
Robin McKinley quotes: But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry. But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.
Robin McKinley quotes: The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto? The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
Robin McKinley quotes: It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life. It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.
Robin McKinley quotes: Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies. - Ossin Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies. - Ossin
Robin McKinley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: She was ashamed. She would notshe would notbe frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep. 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 quotes: I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them
Robin McKinley quotes: The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.
Robin McKinley quotes: Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it? Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?
Robin McKinley quotes: If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
Robin McKinley quotes: With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.
Robin McKinley quotes: She fell in love with him, and he with her; that's a spell if you like. She fell in love with him, and he with her; that's a spell if you like.
Robin McKinley quotes: But he hated to see his people people unhappybecause he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one But he hated to see his people people unhappy
because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one
Robin McKinley quotes: 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 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs. It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.
Robin McKinley quotes: including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly
including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly
Robin McKinley quotes: We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.
Robin McKinley quotes: It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered. It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.
Robin McKinley quotes: Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it. Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

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