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Him Quotes by Robin McKinley
- He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at 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…
- ...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…
- He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if…
- Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is…
- Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?
- My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and…
- ...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
- Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her…
- Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a…
- She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it…
- I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he…
- 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 but true. Scary…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden