“She wondered if her father had awakened yet, if he had missed her, if Jeweltongue would tell him she was only out… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The Beast turned back to me. I could look at him fairly steadily this time. After a moment he said harshly: “I… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs. — Robin McKinley Copy Share
“The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
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… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?” — Robin McKinley Copy Share
People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
“But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--” — Robin McKinley Copy Share
“[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature,"… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
“Rosie hated her curly golden hair. When she was old enough to hold minimal conversations, the itsy-bitsy-cutesycoo sort of grown-ups would pull the soft… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
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… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
“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… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
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… — Robin McKinley Copy Share
