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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Robin McKinley

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Robin McKinley

“It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.”

— Robin McKinley

He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't…

— Robin McKinley

I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers…

— Robin McKinley

“One has various things in the back of one's mind. Occasionally an opportunity presents itself to bring one forward. Most of these…

— Robin McKinley

I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business…

— Robin McKinley

“It is not so easy as running and not running.”

— Robin McKinley

“Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so…

— Robin McKinley

“But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.”

— Robin McKinley

“The chain round my neck gleamed in the daylight too. It looked more like gold this morning, but if I stirred it…

— Robin McKinley

“I said with perfect honesty, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.”

— Robin McKinley