"...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the……" — Robin McKinley

...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves… - Robin McKinley

"...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 thought, I would rather live in a hut in the woods; a hut like the one of my first memories, with a clean-swept dirt floor, and a brown-eyed boy watching me from behind his mother's skirts as I watched him from behind mine."

— Robin McKinley

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