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title: "2 Things Tell Quotes By Robin McKinley"
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> [...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/my-friend-there-are-some-things-that-i-cannot-tell-you-some-i-will/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

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> [Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know--" He stopped… "Some things I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/why-do-you-tell-me-so-much-luthe-considered-her-i-tell-you-some-you/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

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## More by Robin McKinley

> [It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/it-s-hard-to-look-too-grand-when-you-re-led-by-someone-who-looks-like/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/the-most-serious-drawback-to-the-telling-nothing-approach-is-that-it/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/the-magic-in-that-country-was-so-thick-and-tenacious-that-it-settled/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/there-was-something-very-odd-about-the-carpet-this-morning-more/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/he-didn-t-look-insane-or-inhuman-he-did-look-uncooperative/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/people-forgot-it-was-in-the-nature-of-people-to-forget-to-blur/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [“But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/but-he-hated-to-see-his-people-people-unhappy-because-he-was-a-good/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [ “\[the sheep\] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature,"… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/the-sheep-sidled-up-beside-him-and-bumped-him-lovingly-with-its-head/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [I long for another human face just as I fear it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/i-long-for-another-human-face-just-as-i-fear-it/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/rosie-hated-her-curly-golden-hair-when-she-was-old-enough-to-hold/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/there-was-too-a-reality-to-her-new-life-that-her-old-life-had-lacked/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/oh-she-said-too-bone-weary-to-pretend-i-would-far-rather-that-i-love/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/but-i-m-going-to-try-to-tell-the-truth-except-for-the-parts-i-m/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/the-magic-in-that-country-was-so-thick-and-tenacious-that-it-settled-2/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-mckinley/roses-are-for-love-not-silly-sweet-hearts-love-but-the-love-that/)

[Robin McKinley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-mckinley/)

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