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  1. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    at four o'clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of magic as the person who speaks.
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  2. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    I wasn't grateful. You want to talk cranky, coitus interruptus takes me well beyond cranky. My engorged labia felt like they were pressing on my brain-what there was of my brain-and if I didn't get to fuck someone, something, now-a vampire would do-I was going to fucking explode. My cunt ached like a bruise.Beyond cranky, rather fortunately, doesn't transmute into embarrassment. It transmutes into fury. As my blood pressure began to rearrange itself to a more standard unengorged pattern I was seething.
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  3. Robin McKinley _ Beauty: A Retelling of the

    The rich smell of the rose was almost visible; I fancied it lent a rosy edge to the shadows cast by the firelight.
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  4. Robin McKinley _ The Hero and the Crown

    She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her.
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  5. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.
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  6. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.
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  7. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.
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  8. Robin McKinley _ Beauty: A Retelling of the

    The Beast turned back to me. I could look at him fairly steadily this time. After a moment he said harshly: "I am very ugly, am I not?""You are certainly, uh, very hairy," I said."You are being polite," he said."Well, yes," I conceded. "But then you called me beautiful, last night."He made a noise somewhere between a roar and a bark, and after an anxious minute, I decided it was probably a laugh. "You do not believe me then?" he inquired."Well'-no," I said, hesitantly, wondering if this might anger him. "Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise.""You will find no mirrors here," he said, "for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?
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  9. Robin McKinley _ Pegasus

    Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.
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  10. Robin McKinley _ Pegasus

    I believe that the one thing that has come out of this -- extraordinary -- meeting this morning is an awareness that we have, perhaps, been careless about the critical relationship between human and pegasus, careless in our that no better bond than what we are accustomed to can exist. The king agrees with you that his daughter and Lrrianay's son suggest a different way. But the king's view, and indeed hope, for that way is diametrically opposed to your own. Bring what the histories can tell us both, and the councils will decide whose concept of the way forward has more merit. The king is prepared to consider the possibility that your outburst arose from a dedication to the well-being of our country too profound for restraint; but he is only barely prepared so to consider it. You may leave us. Now.
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  11. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    It is not so easy as running and not running.
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  12. Robin McKinley _ Sunshine

    And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed.
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