“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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
