Robin McKinley Quotes

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet than a horse's neigh; hollow bones are wonderful for resonance -- and swept his wings forward to touch, or almost touch, his alula-hands to her temples before he gave his own speech, in the half-humming, half-whuffling syllables the pegasi made when they spoke aloud, only she could understand what he was saying in silent speech. The words were just as stiff and silly (she was rather relieved to discover) as the ones she'd had t

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.

The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Fairy godmothers?” said the king dubiously. “We’ll have a time getting that past the court council — and the bishop.

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.