If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
Robin McKinleyThe story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.
Robin McKinleyWith the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”
Robin McKinleyShe, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.
Robin McKinley