Robin McKinley Quotes - Page 4

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

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  Vampire, Lone Ranger, Rangers

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• ...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.

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  Naps, Choices, Favors

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• ...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

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  Answers, May, Firsts

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• He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.

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  Moments, Laughed

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• It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)

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  Animal, Intelligent, Long Ago

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• Can't all beasts be tamed?

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  Beast, Tamed

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• But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

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  Borders, World, May

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Door in the Hedge: And Other Stories”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

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  Sweet, Silly, Heart

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

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  Trying, Stuff, Telling The Truth

  Robin Mckinley (2007). “Dragonhaven”, p.11, Penguin

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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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• ...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.

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  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.

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  Guy, Bigs, Charlie

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

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  Tree, Wish, Forethought

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