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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?

  Robin McKinley

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

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  Being Yourself, Way

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• The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once.

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  Light, Water, Rose

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• It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

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  Book, Reading, Needs

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• Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

  Robin McKinley

  Onions, Pushing, Doe

  Robin McKinley (2016). “The Blue Sword”, p.16, HarperCollins

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

  Robin McKinley

  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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• Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?

  Robin McKinley

  Wall, Next, Babe

  Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.115, Penguin

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• One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and nothing more, and if you're very lucky there will be children, and the children will pet you and pet you and pet you. Ossin has a list, I think, of such children; he sends his hunting-staff out during the months they are not needed for that work, to look for them, and add names to the list." The fleethounds stared back at her with their enormous dark liquid eyes, and believed every word.

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  Children, Love You, Eye

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.175, Open Road Media

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• Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

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  Adventure, Night, Ordinary

  Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.100, Penguin

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• Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you

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  Congratulations, Say Anything, Want

  Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.116, Penguin

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• Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

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  Names, Needs, Where You Live

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• My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the "extra" buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.

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  Past, Night, Water

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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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• As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

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  Trust Me, Reason, Excellent

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• What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

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  Promise, Wish, Gone

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• Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.

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  Thinking, Noses, Ears

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• Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him shifting his weight, considering if she might let him dig just a small hole.

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  Feet, Elbows, Weight

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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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