At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good earnest, and going to University. It was unheard-of several shocked governesses were only too quick to tell me, when I spoke a little too boldly -- but my father nodded and smiled and said, 'We'll see.' Since I believed my father could do anything -- except of course make me pretty -- I worked and studied with passionate dedication, lived in hope, and avoided society and mirrors.
Robin McKinleyIt was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
Robin McKinleyI said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.
Robin McKinleyI didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.
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