Robin McKinley Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leaving out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

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When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

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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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But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

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And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

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[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

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Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

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I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

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