Robin McKinley

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

— Robin McKinley

“It is not so easy as running and not running.”

— Robin McKinley

Can't all beasts be tamed?

— Robin McKinley

“Cannot a Beast be tamed?”

— Robin McKinley

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

— Robin McKinley

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

— Robin McKinley

“A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.”

— Robin McKinley

There are things you don't want to know you can do

— Robin McKinley

“I said with perfect honesty, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.”

— Robin McKinley

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

— Robin McKinley

“he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in…

— Robin McKinley

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

— Robin McKinley

“You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.”

— Robin McKinley

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

— Robin McKinley

It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.

— Robin McKinley

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

— Robin McKinley

I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is…

— Robin McKinley

“How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the…

— Robin McKinley

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

— Robin McKinley

“There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.”

— Robin McKinley

“Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment. -Hellhound”

— Robin McKinley

the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count…

— Robin McKinley

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer…

— Robin McKinley

“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?”

— Robin McKinley

...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer…

— Robin McKinley

One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the…

— Robin McKinley

“She wished for Ebono as she wished every time she saw Lrrianay at her father's shoulder, or any pegasus at any bond-mate's…

— Robin McKinley

“Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so…

— Robin McKinley

I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even…

— Robin McKinley

Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are…

— Robin McKinley

“Don't let the title mislead you," Arlbeth told her. "The king is simply the visible one. I'm so visible, in fact, that…

— Robin McKinley

What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great…

— Robin McKinley

“And when I looked up and saw you as you were, in no gaudy robes and bearing no solemn goblet - suddenly…

— Robin McKinley

“It is all very well to say that all princesses are good and beautiful and charming; but this is usually a determined…

— Robin McKinley

“I believe that the one thing that has come out of this -- extraordinary -- meeting this morning is an awareness that…

— Robin McKinley

Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than…

— Robin McKinley

“She wondered if her father had awakened yet, if he had missed her, if Jeweltongue would tell him she was only out…

— Robin McKinley

“I don't remember this earlier,' said Tuck. 'No?' said Robin in a neutral voice, and Tuck was too busy to pursue it,…

— Robin McKinley

At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books;…

— Robin McKinley

“Nobody tried to follow me when I left the coffeehouse at ten, or at least nobody but some of the overweight so-called…

— Robin McKinley