Robin McKinley Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Attitude, Littles

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

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  Insane, Looks, Uncooperative

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• I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

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  Believe, Fate, Thinking

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• ...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

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  Ocean, Oysters, What If

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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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• 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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• Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

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  Betrayal, Sick, Different

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had gone on worshiping you as I did not long since.' And she turned away hastily, and did not see that Little John would reach out to her; and half-running, went to Tuck's cottage, where she could pull on her half-dry clothes, and become a proper outlaw again. At least, she thought, fighting back tears, like this I am Cecil, with a place among friends, and a task to do. I am someone. I wonder if perhaps if I am no longer Cecil, I am no one at all.

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  Running, Love You, Fighting

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