Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
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 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… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books;… — 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
