Robin McKinley Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  Robin McKinley

  Morning, Vampire, Doe

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• My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely stand still long enough for me to see what and who they are, before they hurtle away again. And so I spend a lot of time running after them, like a thrown rider after an escaped horse, saying 'Wait for me! Wait for me!' and waving my notebook in the air.

  Robin McKinley

  Notebook, Running, Horse

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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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• 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.

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  Past, Night, Support

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• Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. —Luthe

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  Two, Needs, World

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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.

  Robin McKinley

  Kings, Queens, Thinking

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Relief, Nine, Hills

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• It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

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  Fate, Littles, Odd

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• Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

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  Sometimes, Knows, Folds

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• Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

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  Trust Me, Said, Loses

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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.

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  Cat, Wrestling, Self

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

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• But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.

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  Cutting, Desperate Measures, Hair

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• I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

  Robin McKinley

  Children, Stories, Differentiation

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

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  Color, Answers, My Own

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

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