275 Quotes by Robin McKinley

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies. - Ossin

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

You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you.

Sir Richard ignored this, staring at Robin, who was staring at his feet. "I love her, you see," he said at last, indistinctly.Sir Richard grimaced. "A fine way you have of showing it.""A fine thing I should love her at all, do you not think?" Robin said, looking up.

I'd be looking at some stony sculpture Michelangelo would have killed his grandmother to be able to do, and thinking, I don't know that color, that color doesn't exist, but like wow.

Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

One has various things in the back of one's mind. Occasionally an opportunity presents itself to bring one forward. Most of these opportunities come to nothing. Once in a very great while one -- or two -- do come to something.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.