Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.
Robin McKinleyStichwörter: beauty pegasus robin-mckinley
With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.
Robin McKinleyStichwörter: confidence self-assurance aloneness
It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
Robin McKinleyNo, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done-
Robin McKinleyI 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.
Robin McKinleyStichwörter: loss death sorrow grief heartbreak
It is not a comfortable passion.
Robin McKinleyThere are stories about "good" vampires like there are stories about the loathly lady who, after a hearty meal of raw horse and hunting hound and maybe the odd huntsman or archer, followed by an exciting night in the arms of her chosen knight turns into the kindest and most beautiful lady the world has ever seen...
[...]
And the way I see it, the horse and the hound and the huntsman are still dead, and you have to wonder about the psychology of the chosen knight who goes along with all the carnage and the fun and frolic in bed on some dubious ground of "honor.
Stichwörter: love romance vampires
The Pavilion did not burn by lightening," she said.
He hesitated again. "It holds the memory of fire," he said at last. "Lightening is young and strong and thoughtless, but it could also wish to visit the site of some particular victory of one of its kind--as a young soldier recently commissioned might visit the scene of some great battle--
Stichwörter: fire
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He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.
Robin McKinleyThere was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had never truly loved or hated, for she had never seen the world she had been used to living in closely enough for it to evoke passion in her.
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