Robin McKinley Quotes - Page 5

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• What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

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  Stupid, Heart, Fighting

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

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  Color, Answers, My Own

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.154, Open Road Media

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• If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

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  Water, Trying, Breathe

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.116, Open Road Media

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

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  Kings, Noses, Certain

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

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  Track, Roaring, Rope

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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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  Father, Rose, Wish

  "Beauty". Book by Robin McKinley, 2011.

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• I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses." He considered me a moment, a mischievous light creeping into his eyes, and said: "Was THAT the dress - that night you wouldn't come out of your room?" I grinned and nodded, and we both laughed.

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  Eye, Night, Light

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• the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

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  Running, Speak English, Maps

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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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  Talking, People, Listening

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

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  Betrayal, Sick, Different

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• He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

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  Insane, Looks, Uncooperative

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• He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.

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  Kings, Men, Looks

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• Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

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  Attitude, Littles

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• I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

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  Stars, Love You, Usual

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.157, Open Road Media

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• Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know--" He stopped.... "Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.

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  Hurt, Wish, Needs

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• It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.

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  Pudding, Looks, Legs

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