Robin McKinley: Likeness

“One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.”

Robin McKinley book The Blue Sword

Source: The Blue Sword

“… 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 McKinley

Source: Pegasus

Pleasure

“He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

“Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.”

Robin McKinley Chalice

Source: Chalice

Laughter

“… 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 McKinley book The Blue Sword

Source: The Blue Sword

“So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.”

Robin McKinley Dragonhaven

Source: Dragonhaven

Hell