Declaration Quote by Robin McKinley

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

Robin McKinley

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It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.

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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…

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“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?”

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He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

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People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted…

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“But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--”

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“[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature,"…

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I long for another human face just as I fear it.

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“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…

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“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had…

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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…

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Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper…

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“I've tired so hard to stay away from you, buy your soul is so powerful. It can't be ignored. It calls to me. It's…

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The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax…

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Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

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