275 Quotes by Robin McKinley

Narknon put a paw on Harry’s chest and began licking her face; a hunting-cat’s tongue is much harsher than a housecat’s. Harry thought her skin would crumble and peel off, but she didn’t have the strength to push her away.

Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. – Luthe.

So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you’re me and you’re kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you ’the sky is falling, you’re about to die, run like hell.

Little John, watching her standing next to her brother, half-glowering in the old Cecil manner and half-comforted by Robin’s words, saw for a moment what it had been like for her as Will’s litter sister. Some of what she was good at, and some of what she was bad at, as his pupil, came clear to him in that moment; and something else came clear to him too, but he set it aside so quickly that he allowed himself not to recognize it for what it was.

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

They could at least part with love. It was like Tor to make the gesture; her father, for all his kindness, was too proud – or too much a king; and she was too proud, or too bitter, or too young.

I don’t differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children’s or YA stories particularly.

It’s hard to look too grand when you’re led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.

I – I don’t know what possessed me to tell the story tonight. I do believe the storm has crept into my head and disarranged all my thinking.