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Said Quotes by Robin McKinley
- Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the…
- I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that…
- It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams…
- 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…
- The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit…
- Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does…
- All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.
- I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.
- As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.
- 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 don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is…
- 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…
- I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did…
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