275 Quotes by Robin McKinley

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

I give you a small serenity.

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you’ll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won’t – some people do lead enchanted lives – but odds are that it will. Some time.

He was not tall and handsome and flashing-eyed like his older brother, but there was kindness and grace in him, and intelligence in his unremarkable brown eyes.

I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself.

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.

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we’re-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT’S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

There was a long pause while she hated everyone impartially: Tor for behaving like a farmer’s son whose pet chicken has just been insulted; her father, for being so immovably kingly; and Perlith for being Perlith.

She fell in love with him, and he with her; that’s a spell if you like.