“It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.” LooksHardLegsPudding Author:Robin McKinley
“Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.” IfsWorldLooksLittlesDoeNamesBitsAnswersPerfectCompassionTreeFeetWallBalanceLittle BitRoundsPhilosopherClueAntsOaksOak Tree Author:Robin McKinley
“So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.” KnowsLooksLongTwoNovelTownsRoseMy FavoriteEightSmellBitterExpensiveChocolateCakeDozenApartmentTwo DaysGood Long Author:Robin McKinley
“One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and nothing more, and if you're very lucky there will be children, and the children will pet you and pet you and pet you. Ossin has a list, I think, of such children; he sends his hunting-staff out during the months they are not needed for that work, to look for them, and add names to the list." The fleethounds stared back at her with their enormous dark liquid eyes, and believed every word.” IfsThinkingLooksChildrenEyeNamesDarkLove YouMonthsNeededOne DayLuckyAddListsEnormousPetHuntingStaffRetiredLiquid Book:Deerskin Source: Deerskin
“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.” LooksMirrorsAngryThings To DoPaceBetter Things To Do Author:Robin McKinley
“Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.” HumansLooksFailing Book:Pegasus Source: Pegasus
“He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.” LooksInsaneInhumanUncooperative Author:Robin McKinley
“He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.” MenLooksProblemKingsDistinctionHarassment Author:Robin McKinley
