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• 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.

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  Mirrors, Looks, Pace

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• Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

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  Wall, Compassion, Names

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• Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

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  Names, Creepy, Vampire

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• the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

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  Ideas, Evil, Poison

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• Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

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  Dark, Roots, Sight

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• Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

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  Odds, People, Needs

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• Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do." "Oh," said Harry. "You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought. "Thanks," said Harry.

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  Cutting, Blow, Wish

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• 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.

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  Fate, Littles, Odd

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• I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

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  Perfect, Trying, Honest

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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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• My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely stand still long enough for me to see what and who they are, before they hurtle away again. And so I spend a lot of time running after them, like a thrown rider after an escaped horse, saying 'Wait for me! Wait for me!' and waving my notebook in the air.

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  Notebook, Running, Horse

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• Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

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  Sometimes, Knows, Folds

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• Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

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  Trust Me, Said, Loses

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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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• 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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• 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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  Trying, Stuff, Telling The Truth

  Robin Mckinley (2007). “Dragonhaven”, p.11, Penguin

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• Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

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  Sweet, Silly, Heart

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.42, Open Road Media

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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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  Borders, World, May

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Door in the Hedge: And Other Stories”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Can't all beasts be tamed?

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  Beast, Tamed

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• It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)

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  Animal, Intelligent, Long Ago

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• He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.

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  Moments, Laughed

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• ...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

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  Answers, May, Firsts

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• ...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.

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  Naps, Choices, Favors

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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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