275 Quotes by Robin McKinley

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.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

it was nearly dawn, and the hill was white with snow. She was covered with a thick blanket of bees, and the snow lay upon them in bright broken spangles. She sat up in distress— bees cannot survive hard cold outside their hives— but they seemed to shake themselves...

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

Nothing?' said Corlath. 'I said there were two things. I have told you the first. You told us what you saw as you saw it. But this is the second thing: you spoke in the Old Tongue, what we call the Language of the Gods, that none knows any more but kings and sorcerers, and those they wish to teach it to. The language I just spoke to you, that you did not recognize- I was repeating the words you had said yourself, a moment before.

There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

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

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