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Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley , scrittrice statunitense.

✵ 16. Novembre 1952
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Robin McKinley: Frasi in inglese

“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”

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Robin McKinley libro Sunshine

Origine: Sunshine

“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.”

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Robin McKinley libro Sunshine

Origine: Sunshine

“[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”

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Robin McKinley libro The Blue Sword

Origine: The Blue Sword

“… My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.”

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Robin McKinley libro The Blue Sword

Origine: The Blue Sword

“When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.”

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Robin McKinley libro Spindle's End

Origine: Spindle's End

“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”

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Robin McKinley libro Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Origine: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

“Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.”

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Robin McKinley libro Rose Daughter

Origine: Rose Daughter

“But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.”

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Robin McKinley Dragonhaven

Origine: Dragonhaven

“You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.”

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Robin McKinley libro The Blue Sword

Origine: The Blue Sword

“Everything 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.”

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Origine: Pegasus

“He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.”

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Origine: The Hero and The Crown

“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.”

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Robin McKinley libro The Blue Sword

Origine: The Blue Sword

“And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.”

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Robin McKinley Chalice

Origine: Chalice

“It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.”

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Robin McKinley Deerskin

Origine: Deerskin

“… 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.”

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Origine: Pegasus

“There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.”

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Robin McKinley libro The Blue Sword

Origine: The Blue Sword

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

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Robin McKinley libro The Hero and the Crown

Origine: The Hero and the Crown

“It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.”

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Robin McKinley libro The Blue Sword

Origine: The Blue Sword

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

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Robin McKinley Chalice

Origine: Chalice

“I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much."
"But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly.
I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?”

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Robin McKinley libro Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Origine: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

“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.”

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Robin McKinley libro Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Origine: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

“People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.”

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Robin McKinley libro Spindle's End

Origine: Spindle's End

“If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.”

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Robin McKinley libro The Hero and the Crown

Origine: The Hero and the Crown

“Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.”

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Robin McKinley libro Sunshine

Origine: Sunshine

“… 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?”

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Robin McKinley libro The Blue Sword

Origine: The Blue Sword

“Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.”

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