Robin McKinley

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous…

— Robin McKinley

“So after he married her, he set out not really to woo her, which he thought would be cheating when affairs of…

— Robin McKinley

Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially…

— Robin McKinley

“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

“ You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you. ”

— Robin McKinley

There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never…

— Robin McKinley

“There are always cats around Charlie's, but they are usually refugees seeking asylum from the local rat population, and rather desperately friendly.”

— Robin McKinley

Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the…

— Robin McKinley

“Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly…

— Robin McKinley

“Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. (Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till…

— Robin McKinley

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.

— Robin McKinley

The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?

— Robin McKinley

“At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of…

— Robin McKinley

“I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.”

— Robin McKinley

“There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.”

— Robin McKinley

“Would it help perhaps if I told you that, had your father returned to me alone, I would have sent him on…

— Robin McKinley

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

— Robin McKinley

“The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is…

— Robin McKinley

“(There was an idea much beloved and written about by this country’s philosophers that magic had to do with negotiating the balance…

— Robin McKinley

“We are all only mortal," said the Master, even more slowly. "We do only what we can do. All the Elemental priests…

— Robin McKinley

“She thought, He's afraid I'll make a mess of it. She was sure she had been careful to think that on the…

— Robin McKinley

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

— Robin McKinley

“It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and…

— Robin McKinley

“we may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.”

— Robin McKinley

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself…

— Robin McKinley