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Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.

Robin McKinley

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Robin McKinley
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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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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...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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Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
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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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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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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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As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.
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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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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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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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It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
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There are things you don't want to know you can do
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Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.
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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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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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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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It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.
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