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. —Luthe Robin McKinley More Quotes by Robin McKinley More Quotes From Robin McKinley ...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other. Robin McKinley favors choices naps ...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. Robin McKinley answers may firsts He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough. Robin McKinley laughed moments It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.) Robin McKinley long-ago intelligent animal Can't all beasts be tamed? Robin McKinley tamed beast But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be. Robin McKinley borders may world 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 silly heart sweet But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leaving out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it. Robin McKinley telling-the-truth stuff trying ...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 mother memories boys it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself. Robin McKinley being-yourself way Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose? Robin McKinley loses trust-me said Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart. Robin McKinley love-you believe lying My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval." I stared at him. "You made a *joke*." "I have heard this kind of thing may happen. Robin McKinley vampire doe morning The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once. Robin McKinley light rose water 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 reading book needs Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not. Robin McKinley onions pushing doe Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe. Robin McKinley charlie bigs guy Because she was a princess she had a pegasus. Robin McKinley pegasus princess All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said. Robin McKinley sat tired said Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you Robin McKinley congratulations say-anything want
