Quote by Robin McKinley Download Open image ““Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please.”” — Robin McKinley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale:… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.” — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“I give you the gift of love. You do not need to accept it. It does not diminish the gift. Not accepting it only… — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I cannot give you any greater gift than the opportunity to understand.” — Klaudio Marashi Copy Share Image
“Don’t allow yourself to waste that chance. Don’t succumb to any…distractions.” I could only imagine my expression. Miss Swanston lowered her candy-red lashes and… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
“something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“She wanted me. She wanted to give herself to me. I felt unworthy to accept such a gift, but it didn’t stop me from… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature,"… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“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 the soft… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
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… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image