“[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“I said with perfect honesty, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“No wonder he'd never really finished becoming one of us. We just thought it was because he was half Japanese, and lived… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“It is all very well to say that all princesses are good and beautiful and charming; but this is usually a determined… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The sheep, I guess demented with love, didn't object to this at all. Casimir somehow found time to pull up some grass… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“It's kind of interesting you're driving a car big enough for a wolfhound and a mastiff to get in the back of… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“I'd be looking at some stony sculpture Michelangelo would have killed his grandmother to be able to do, and thinking, I don't… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Jesse reached into a bottom drawer and brought out a bottle of... oh, hey, single-malt scotch. Some SOFs did know how to… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“So after he married her, he set out not really to woo her, which he thought would be cheating when affairs of… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“There are always cats around Charlie's, but they are usually refugees seeking asylum from the local rat population, and rather desperately friendly.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. (Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“(There was an idea much beloved and written about by this country’s philosophers that magic had to do with negotiating the balance… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Vampires do breathe, by the way, but their chests don't move like humans'. Have you ever lain in the arms of your… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
