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161 " And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful? "
― Robin McKinley , Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
162 " They could at least part with love. It was like Tor to make the gesture; her father, for all his kindness, was too proud—or too much a king; and she was too proud, or too bitter, or too young. "
― Robin McKinley , The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)
163 " Reread your favorite novel, the one you only let yourself read any more when you’re sick in bed. "
― Robin McKinley
164 " I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. "
― Robin McKinley , Sunshine
165 " It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered; it just is, like sunlight or mountains. It is for human beings to see the shadows behind the light, and the light behind the shadows. It is, perhaps, why dogs have people, and people have dogs. "
― Robin McKinley , Deerskin
166 " breaking tradition always comes with a noise like mountains falling. "
― Robin McKinley , Pegasus (Pegasus, #1)
167 " Nothing?' said Corlath. 'I said there were two things. I have told you the first. You told us what you saw as you saw it. But this is the second thing: you spoke in the Old Tongue, what we call the Language of the Gods, that none knows any more but kings and sorcerers, and those they wish to teach it to. The language I just spoke to you, that you did not recognize- I was repeating the words you had said yourself, a moment before. "
― Robin McKinley , The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
168 " Narknon put a paw on Harry's chest and began licking her face; a hunting-cat's tongue is much harsher than a housecat's. Harry thought her skin would crumble and peel off, but she didn't have the strength to push her away. "
169 " Muffin cups in my bakery were real sorcerer’s apprentice material, like the dough for the cinnamon rolls every morning could have stood in for The Blob. "
170 " Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects. "
171 " Post-traumatic shock, phooey. Seemed to me the trauma was trotting right along with me, like a dog on a leash with its owner. I was the dog. I "
172 " but she brooded not only about how to tackle her father, but also about what, precisely, she was setting out to do. Test the fire-repellent properties of her discovery. Toward killing dragons. Did she really want to kill dragons? Yes. Why? Pause. To be doing something. To be doing something better than anyone else was doing it. "
173 " And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed. "
174 " It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life. "
175 " The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. "
176 " It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog’s love, once given, is not reconsidered; it just is, like sunlight or mountains. It is for human beings to see the shadows behind the light, and the light behind the shadows. It is, perhaps, why dogs have people, and people have dogs. "
177 " She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her. "
178 " The rich smell of the rose was almost visible; I fancied it lent a rosy edge to the shadows cast by the firelight. "
179 " at four o’clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of magic as the person who speaks. "
180 " It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag. "
― Robin McKinley , Imaginary Lands