275 Quotes by Robin McKinley

It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.

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.

So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.

The merrel also knew its wing had not healed. But I could reach a great height once more before it failed me, it said. And from there I would fold my wings and plummet to the earth as if a hare or a fawn had caught my eye; but it would be myself I stooped toward. It would be a good flight and a good death. And so I eat their dead things cut up on a pole, dreaming of my last flight.

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

Magicians scorned talking to animals; animal thoughts weren't nearly orderly enough to suit magicians, and were always full of large untidy preoccupations, like sex and death and the next meal.

But I return to you now all that you did give me: all the rage and the terror, the pain and the hatred that should have been love. The nightmares and the waking dreams that are worse than nightmares because they are memories. These I return to you for I want them no more, and I will bear them not one whit of my time on this earth more.

Yesterday we had feared a doom we did not know; today the doom was known by us all, and feared no less.