Robin McKinley Quotes - Page 5

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• Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him shifting his weight, considering if she might let him dig just a small hole.

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  Feet, Elbows, Weight

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• If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

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  Water, Trying, Breathe

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.116, Open Road Media

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• Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that...might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody's knee and purred.

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  Cat, Wrestling, Self

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.76, Penguin

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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 them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

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  People, Stories, Way

  Robin McKinley (2011). “Spindle's End”, p.266, Random House

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• I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.

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  Dad, Kids, Beer

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• She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetables are good for you,' she said, and added caressingly, 'They make you grow up big and strong.' He smiled, showing a great many teeth. 'You see why I wish to eat no more vegetables.

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  Strong, Growing Up, Boys

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

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  Robins, Mice, Reserved

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.114, Penguin

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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 slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

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  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

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  Garden, Voice, Car

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• What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

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  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

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  Betrayal, Sick, Different

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• I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

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  Children, Stories, Differentiation

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• I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses." He considered me a moment, a mischievous light creeping into his eyes, and said: "Was THAT the dress - that night you wouldn't come out of your room?" I grinned and nodded, and we both laughed.

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  Eye, Night, Light

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• I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

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  Stars, Love You, Usual

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.157, Open Road Media

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• the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

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  Running, Speak English, Maps

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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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  Pudding, Looks, Legs

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