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21 " My father... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I asked, even when I was foolish. I lived through it; and I know my own mind; and he will do what I ask him. "
― Robin McKinley , The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)
22 " It is not a comfortable passion. "
23 " But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it. "
24 " --including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly-- "
25 " But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one-- "
26 " No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done- "
27 " In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged. "
28 " It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged. "
29 " I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,"she said. "
30 " But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry. "
31 " HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to.... "
32 " This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master. "
33 " 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. "
34 " 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. "
35 " Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. "
36 " Mathin said: "It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do.""Oh," said Harry."You may, if you wish, unhorse him first," Mathin added as an afterthought."Thanks," said Harry. "
37 " It is that I cannot see what I am doing or why, and it is unsettling always to live only in the moment as it passes. Oh, I know one never sees ahead or behind. But I see even less. It is like being blindfolded when everyone else in the room is not. No one can see outside the room – but everyone else can see the room. I would like to take my blindfold off. "
38 " Fun?” She said, exasperated. “Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily vigorous,” suggested Jack. "