Robin McKinley Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Robin McKinley

  Wall, Compassion, Names

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”

  Robin McKinley

  Self, Declaration

  "Deerskin". Book by Robin McKinley, June 1, 1993.

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

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  Vampire, Lone Ranger, Rangers

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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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• Can't all beasts be tamed?

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  Beast, Tamed

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

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  Giving, Lessons, Apologizing

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.13, Open Road Media

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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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  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.19, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

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  Cities, Wish, Together

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

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  Zebras, Chocolate, Hot

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• Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

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  Military, Thinking, Track

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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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