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
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
Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said. — 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
As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no. — 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
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 wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the… — 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
I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose? — 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