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Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Robin McKinley

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Robin McKinley
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Warren
Ohio
Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley
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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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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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He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.
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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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It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
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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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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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Can't all beasts be tamed?
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Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.
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I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
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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
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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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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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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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Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack.
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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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