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Quotes About Connection

Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies.
~ Robin McKinley
She fell in love with him, and he with her; that's a spell if you like.
~ Robin McKinley
Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank you: all those people were like drowning.
~ Robin McKinley
It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered; it just is, like sunlight or mountains. It is for human beings to see the shadows behind the light, and the light behind the shadows. It is, perhaps, why dogs have people, and people have dogs.
~ Robin McKinley
I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company.
~ Robin McKinley
You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you.
~ Robin McKinley
It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered; it just is, like sunlight or mountains. It is for human beings to see the shadows behind the light, and the light behind the shadows. It is, perhaps, why dogs have people, and people have dogs.
~ Robin McKinley
In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
~ Robin McKinley
I'm your friend, Sunshine," he said. "Everything else is just static on the line.
~ Robin McKinley
Tales are as much the necessary fabric of our lives as our bodies are.
~ Robin McKinley
I long for another human face just as I fear it.
~ Robin McKinley
the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. I am sorry, you ugly creature, he said. I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.
~ Robin McKinley
She wished for Ebono as she wished every time she saw Lrrianay at her father's shoulder, or any pegasus at any bond-mate's shoulder, or any pegasus. Or any time she took a breath, she wished again for Ebon.
~ Robin McKinley
I'd learned to fish because Mel taught me, not because I longed to impale small invertebrates on barbed hooks and rip hell out of piscine oral cavities and smother fellow oxygen breathers in an alien medium
~ Robin McKinley
Cornbread? He brightened immediately. I was as bad as Paulie, really, despite how long I'd been doing this. Someone wants to eat my food, they're automatically my friend. Someone who doesn't want to eat my food, they automatically aren't. This is an awkward attitude if you hang out a lot with a vampire.
~ Robin McKinley
Narknon put a paw on Harry's chest and began licking her face; a hunting-cat's tongue is much harsher than a housecat's. Harry thought her skin would crumble and peel off, but she didn't have the strength to push her away.
~ Robin McKinley
He wasn't really boring. She just wasn't in love with him.
~ Robin McKinley
It made her laugh - weeding with her fingernails - and the real weight of the earth comforted her.... She knew this garden would do it's best for her. It didn't matter how she knew.
~ Robin McKinley
I don't even know your name." He smiled. "I'm afraid I no longer remember it. You will have to name me. Come; introduce me to your family. I am looking forward to meeting them.
~ Robin McKinley
She looked at them as they looked at each other, and knew why, for the hopelessness was as bright in their eyes as the love.
~ Robin McKinley
Marian... turned her face at last; there were tear marks on it, and Robin felt a pricking behind his own eyes, that Marian should cry over him.
~ Robin McKinley
Common interests, common values and goals, and a capacity for deep, sustained intimacy are required if a couple's initial erotic enchantment with each other is to eventually metamorphose into a committed, caring devotion that will endure over time.
~ Robin Norwood
Totul se întâmpl? într-un anumit context, chiar ÅŸi felul în care iubim
~ Robin Norwood
Todos, cada uno de nosotros, estamos llenos de horror. Si te casas para espantar tu horror, sólo lograrás casar tu horror con el de otra persona; los dos horrores tendrá el matrimonio, tú sangrarás y llamarás a eso amor. Michael Ventura
~ Robin Norwood