Robin McKinley Quotes - Page 4

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• The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?

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  Vampire, Lone Ranger, Rangers

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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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  Laughter, Stones, Sunlight

  Robin Mckinley (2008). “Chalice”, p.55, Penguin

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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?

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  Food, Anxiety, Potatoes

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• There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.

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  Past, Night, Support

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• I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

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  Tree, Wish, Forethought

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Way

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• Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

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  Guy, Bigs, Charlie

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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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  Tired, Said, Sat

  Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.139, Penguin

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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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  Mother, Memories, Boys

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

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  True Friend, Dangerous

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• She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

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  Eye, Tree, Bruises

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• My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval." I stared at him. "You made a *joke*." "I have heard this kind of thing may happen.

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  Morning, Vampire, Doe

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

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  Pain, Memories, Ease

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Outlaws of Sherwood”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was so accustomed to his step, to his bulk, that it took a moment to notice his face; and when she did . . . It was, she thought, rather like the moment it took to realize one had cut one's finger as one stared dumbly at the first drop of blood on the knife-blade. You know it is going to hurt quite a lot in a minute.

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  Hurt, Cutting, Fire

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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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  Kings, Queens, Thinking

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. —Luthe

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  Two, Needs, World

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• Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.

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  Writing, World, Want

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• But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.

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  Cutting, Desperate Measures, Hair

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• I long for another human face just as I fear it.

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  Long, Faces, Humans

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Culture, Levels, Grassroots

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• I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

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  Children, Stories, Differentiation

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• Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

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  Beautiful, Believe, Night

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• What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

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  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

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  Garden, Voice, Car

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• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

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  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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