But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
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… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago… — 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
