Pegasus
Robin McKinley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.”
“...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.”
“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”
“All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.”
“Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.”
“Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.”
“She thought, He's afraid I'll make a mess of it. She was sure she had been careful to think that on the safe, private side of the silent border, but Ebon turned on her and said, Don't ever think that. About anything. You're my heart's sister, even if you are a funny shape and walk on your hind legs all the time and rattle away out loud like a donkey or a bird. I'm frightened because you're frightened, and because it's hard-it can be hard-the first time going into the Caves, and you're old for it-you can't do ssshuuwuushuu and the ssshasssha will be like...being thrown in a cold dark lake when you can't swim and you've never seen water before.”
“Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?”
“There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.”
“Don't you mind being short?' she blurted. He spread his small hands and looked at them. 'I am a magician, not a princess. A pony costs less to keep than a horse, which means I can buy more books.' He paused. 'It is not always a bad thing, to be overlooked.”
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