Writer Quotes by Robin McKinley

It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.

— 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…

— 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…

— Robin McKinley

“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?”

— Robin McKinley

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

— 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…

— Robin McKinley

“But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--”

— 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,"…

— Robin McKinley

I long for another human face just as I fear it.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Robin McKinley