“My father... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I… — 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
“I want no presents from the Beast,” said Father. “Is he trying to buy us off? Let him take his rich gifts… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“She caught her father one day at breakfast, between ministers with tactical problems and councillors with strategic ones. His face lit up… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“She wondered if her father had awakened yet, if he had missed her, if Jeweltongue would tell him she was only out… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“--including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly--” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Would it help perhaps if I told you that, had your father returned to me alone, I would have sent him on… — 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
![“[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature," he said. "I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.” quote by Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/21b/robin-mckinley-1591_humor_the-sheep-sidled-up-beside-him-and-bumpe_182306.jpg)
