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
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called… — 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
And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost… — 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
Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters. — 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
