the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and... by Robin McKinley

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

Robin McKinley

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I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

sorrow loss thinking

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is wha... by Robin McKinley

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

my-own color answers

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative. by Robin McKinley

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

uncooperative insane looks

Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know--" He stopped.... "Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.

hurt wish needs

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

stars usual love-you

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.

car voice garden

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to tak... by Robin McKinley

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

honest perfect trying

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.

elbows weight feet

Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.

ears noses thinking

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent... by Robin McKinley

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

trust-me excellent reason

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

breathe trying water

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face. by Robin McKinley

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

tiny fists hurt

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," sugges... by Robin McKinley

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

littles attitude

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick. by Robin McKinley

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

betrayal sick different

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

wish rose father

I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

fate believe thinking

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are. by Robin McKinley

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

mind

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself. by Robin McKinley

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

forethought wish tree

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.

cat self wrestling

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.

stories people way