Robin McKinley Quotes
Top 97 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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?
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.
[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.
Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.
And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around?
Well. Yes.
Well. Yes.
If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.
It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.
Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment.
-Hellhound
-Hellhound
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
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.
This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.
There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell.
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.
But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.
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.
Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
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.
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 love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.
And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed.
It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn.
Fairy godmothers?" said the king dubiously. "We'll have a time getting that past the court council - and the bishop.
One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.
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.
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.
No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done-
When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.
We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.
HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to ...
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.
She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her.
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.
There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.
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.
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.
she would not
be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
But he hated to see his people people unhappy
because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one
because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one
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.
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.
including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly