“[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“I knew you'd figure it out," he said. "And I hoped that by the time you figured it out, you would be… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The sheep, I guess demented with love, didn't object to this at all. Casimir somehow found time to pull up some grass… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The Beast turned back to me. I could look at him fairly steadily this time. After a moment he said harshly: “I… — 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
There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant,… — 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
