Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.
Robin McKinleyAll you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?
I sat very diligently, she said.
Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?
Robin McKinleyOne day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and nothing more, and if you're very lucky there will be children, and the children will pet you and pet you and pet you. Ossin has a list, I think, of such children; he sends his hunting-staff out during the months they are not needed for that work, to look for them, and add names to the list." The fleethounds stared back at her with their enormous dark liquid eyes, and believed every word.
Robin McKinleyEverything 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.
Robin McKinleyStay 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
Robin McKinleyStichwörter: thanks congratulations
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
Robin McKinleyStichwörter: friendship relationships missing
...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?
Robin McKinleyThere are things you don't want to know you can do
Robin McKinleyStichwörter: power self-awareness paradigm-shift the-unknown dire-circumstances
the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil
Robin McKinleyStichwörter: constantine-evil
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