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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: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Ohio
Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley
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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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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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He grunted she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.
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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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Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
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He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.
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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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[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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If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
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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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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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Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous, suggested Jack.
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You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.
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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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People forgot it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.
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The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.
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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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What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?
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My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily, he said. You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval. I stared at him. You made a *joke*. I have heard this kind of thing may happen.
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There are things you don't want to know you can do
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