Heart Quotes by Robin McKinley

Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair…

— Robin McKinley

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come…

— Robin McKinley

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading…

— Robin McKinley

“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

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.

— Robin McKinley

“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

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during…

— Robin McKinley

“She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names…

— Robin McKinley

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

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

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

“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

“There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago…

— Robin McKinley

There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never…

— Robin McKinley

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that…

— Robin McKinley