There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.
Robin McKinleyThe merrel also knew its wing had not healed. But I could reach a great height once more before it failed me, it said. And from there I would fold my wings and plummet to the earth as if a hare or a fawn had caught my eye; but it would be myself I stooped toward. It would be a good flight and a good death. And so I eat their dead things cut up on a pole, dreaming of my last flight.
Robin McKinleyTag: freedom suicide injury captivity
In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
Robin McKinleyIt had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged.
Robin McKinleyShe had had insomnia badly when she was fresh from Home.... She had had only occasional bad nights since then. Bad? she thought. Why bad? I rarely feel much the worse the next day, except for a sort of moral irritability that seems to go with the feeling that I ought to have spent all those silent hours asleep.
Robin McKinleyBut he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--
Robin McKinleyMathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.
Robin McKinleyYour attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.
Robin McKinley--including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly--
Robin McKinleyI 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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