All Robin McKinley Quotes
- We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. Ability
- If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. Cities
- My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about… Bitter
- The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call… Better
- Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters. Ask
- Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. Beings
- I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash? Anxiety
- Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. Constantine
- [Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels… Adventure
- I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have… Advise
- She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was… Accustomed
- One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams. Daydreaming
- She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree… Asleep
- 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 had… All
- Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the… All
- ...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and… Behind
- [Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous. Dangerous
- When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in… Able
- The story is always better than your ability to write it. Ability
- it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself. Goes
- There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman… Abducted
- What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much… Been
- Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn… Both
- When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives… Dearest
- She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that… Addressed