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Robin McKinley

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we may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Relationships
It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Relationships
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
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.
From Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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Topic: Death
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all magic was—it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that looked more or less the same from day to day and might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody’s knee and purred.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Funny
...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.
From Pegasus
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Topic: Relationships
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'

It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Philosophical
Once started on a task that could be finished in one effort, she would accomplish it efficiently enough; but she was absentminded about messages, or remembering to return to a task only partially completed.
From Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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Topic: Hope
The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Death
we may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Relationships
It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Relationships
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
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.
From Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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Topic: Death
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all magic was—it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that looked more or less the same from day to day and might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody’s knee and purred.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Funny
...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.
From Pegasus
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Topic: Relationships
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'

It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Philosophical
Once started on a task that could be finished in one effort, she would accomplish it efficiently enough; but she was absentminded about messages, or remembering to return to a task only partially completed.
From Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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Topic: Hope
The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Death
we may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Relationships
It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Relationships
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
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.
From Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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Topic: Death
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic—which was what all magic was—it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that looked more or less the same from day to day and might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody’s knee and purred.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Funny
...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.
From Pegasus
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Topic: Relationships
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?'

It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.
From Spindle's End
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Topic: Philosophical
Once started on a task that could be finished in one effort, she would accomplish it efficiently enough; but she was absentminded about messages, or remembering to return to a task only partially completed.
From Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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Topic: Hope
The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brass-bound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Funny
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.
From Sunshine
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Topic: Death