Robin McKinley Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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.

  Robin McKinley

  Book, Reading, Needs

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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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• My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval." I stared at him. "You made a *joke*." "I have heard this kind of thing may happen.

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  Morning, Vampire, Doe

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• What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And I'm sorry to tell you this, but where your magic lives will always be a great dark space with scraps you fumble for. You must learn to sniff them out in the dark.

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  Sorry, Dark, Space

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.68, Penguin

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• So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.

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  Eight, Cake, Two

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• She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.

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  Kings, Queens, Thinking

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.145, Open Road Media

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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?

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  Wall, Next, Babe

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

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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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• 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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• ...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

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  Missing Him, Too Much, Lasts

  Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.235, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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