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• I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

  Robin McKinley

  Tree, Wish, Forethought

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• [Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

  Robin McKinley

  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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• He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.

  Robin McKinley

  Relief, Nine, Hills

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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.

  Robin McKinley

  Kings, Men, Looks

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• There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.

  Robin McKinley

  Past, Night, Support

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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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• 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.

  Robin McKinley

  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.

  Robin McKinley

  Water, Trying, Breathe

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

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• Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

  Robin McKinley

  Hurt, Fists, Tiny

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.43, Penguin

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• Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

  Robin McKinley

  Robins, Mice, Reserved

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.114, Penguin

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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.

  Robin McKinley

  Hurt, Wish, Needs

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• Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that...might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody's knee and purred.

  Robin McKinley

  Cat, Wrestling, Self

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.76, Penguin

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

  Robin McKinley

  Attitude, Littles

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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?"

  Robin McKinley

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

  Robin McKinley

  Color, Answers, My Own

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

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• Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.

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  Writing, World, Want

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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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• 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?

  Robin McKinley

  Promise, Wish, Gone

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

  Robin McKinley

  Vampire, Lone Ranger, Rangers

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• Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

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  Beautiful, Believe, Night

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

  Robin McKinley

  Guy, Bigs, Charlie

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