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01c. 1952 AD

Dogs are very comforting when your world has exploded.

Robin McKinley / quote

02c. 1952 AD

It's kind of interesting you're driving a car big enough for a wolfhound and a mastiff to get in the back of today," I said."And a greyhound, a dark brown bear, and a brindle utility vehicle," said Jill."Greyhounds don't take up much room," I said. "They're like dog silhouettes.

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03c. 1952 AD

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them.

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04c. 1952 AD

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

Robin McKinley / quote

05c. 1952 AD

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. --Robin

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06c. 1952 AD

Jesse reached into a bottom drawer and brought out a bottle of... oh, hey, single-malt scotch. Some SOFs did know how to live.

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07c. 1952 AD

It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet than a horse's neigh; hollow bones are wonderful for resonance -- and swept his wings forward to touch, or almost touch, his alula-hands to her temples before he gave his own speech, in the half-humming, half-whuffling syllables the pegasi made when they spoke aloud, only she could understand what he was saying in silent speech. The words were just as stiff and silly (she was rather relieved to discover) as the ones she'd had t

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08c. 1952 AD

Fairy godmothers?” said the king dubiously. “We’ll have a time getting that past the court council — and the bishop.

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09c. 1952 AD

She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names.

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10c. 1952 AD

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

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11c. 1952 AD

Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter.” The Grand Seneschal shrugged. “The Master did not protest. And, indeed, what weapon could he have suggested that would suit him any better?” “Fire,” she said. “He would not,” said the Seneschal. “You know he would not.

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12c. 1952 AD

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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