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it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

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Robin McKinley
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley
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I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.
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With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”
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And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.
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As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.
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It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)
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What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.
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There are things you don't want to know you can do
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But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.
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Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.
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He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.
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I long for another human face just as I fear it.
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Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.
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Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.
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Why do you tell me... so much? Luthe considered her. I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know-- He stopped.... Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.
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It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.
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It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
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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.
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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.
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...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago something or other or die had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.
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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.
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