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41 " There are always cats around Charlie's, but they are usually refugees seeking asylum from the local rat population, and rather desperately friendly. "
― Robin McKinley , Sunshine
42 " Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened. "
― Robin McKinley , Shadows
43 " How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the umbrella stand overnight? "
44 " Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded. "
45 " I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them. "
― Robin McKinley , Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
46 " Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe. "
47 " Jesse reached into a bottom drawer and brought out a bottle of... oh, hey, single-malt scotch. Some SOFs did know how to live. "
48 " Fairy godmothers?” said the king dubiously. “We’ll have a time getting that past the court council — and the bishop. "
― Robin McKinley , Spindle's End
49 " She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names. "
― Robin McKinley , Deerskin
50 " [Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous. "
― Robin McKinley , The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
51 " Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter.” The Grand Seneschal shrugged. “The Master did not protest. And, indeed, what weapon could he have suggested that would suit him any better?” “Fire,” she said. “He would not,” said the Seneschal. “You know he would not. "
― Robin McKinley , Chalice
52 " Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster. "
― Robin McKinley , Pegasus (Pegasus, #1)
53 " ...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers. "
54 " Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead. "
― Robin McKinley , Rose Daughter
55 " You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. "
56 " He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough. "
― Robin McKinley , The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)
57 " One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things. "
58 " And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket. "
59 " 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 I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good earnest, and going to University. It was unheard-of several shocked governesses were only too quick to tell me, when I spoke a little too boldly -- but my father nodded and smiled and said, 'We'll see.' Since I believed my father could do anything -- except of course make me pretty -- I worked and studied with passionate dedication, lived in hope, and avoided society and mirrors. "
60 " It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered. "