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All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.
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Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.
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Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.
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She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.
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Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.
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We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.
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Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.
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Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?
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And again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and thought, I would rather live in a hut in the woods; a hut like the one of my first memories, with a clean-swept dirt floor, and a brown-eyed boy watching me from behind his mother's skirts as I watched him from behind mine.
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Born:
November 16, 1952
(age 71)
Bio:
Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley, known as Robin McKinley, is an American author of fantasy and children's books. Her 1984 novel The Hero and the Crown won the Newbery Medal as the year's best new American children's book.
Known for:
The Blue Sword (1982)
The Hero and the Crown (1984)
Deerskin (1993)
Rose Daughter (1997)
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