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

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  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.

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  Robins, Mice, Reserved

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

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• She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetables are good for you,' she said, and added caressingly, 'They make you grow up big and strong.' He smiled, showing a great many teeth. 'You see why I wish to eat no more vegetables.

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  Strong, Growing Up, Boys

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.

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  Dad, Kids, Beer

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• People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

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  People, Stories, Way

  Robin McKinley (2011). “Spindle's End”, p.266, Random House

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

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  Insane, Looks, Uncooperative

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

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  Attitude, Littles

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• I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

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  Stars, Love You, Usual

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.157, Open Road Media

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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.

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  Hurt, Wish, Needs

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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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• 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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• I long for another human face just as I fear it.

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  Long, Faces, Humans

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.120, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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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