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

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Robin McKinley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Ohio
Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley
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What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And I'm sorry to tell you this, but where your magic lives will always be a great dark space with scraps you fumble for. You must learn to sniff them out in the dark.
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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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...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?
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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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One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.
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Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.
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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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Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?
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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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I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.
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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.
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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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She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.
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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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[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.
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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
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When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.
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But the world turns, and even legends change and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.
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All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.
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Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
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