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  1. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    at four o'clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of magic as the person who speaks.
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  2. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    It is not so easy as running and not running.
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  3. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    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.
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  4. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart.
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  5. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell.
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  6. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies. - Ossin
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  7. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names.
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  8. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    Her fingers crawled upwards and touched the outer curve of her breast, and the fingers paused, quaking in fear; but after the moment, despite the panic trying to break out of its shadows and seize her mind, she told her fingers, go on. This is my body. I reclaim my body for myself: for my use, for my understanding, for my kindness and care. Go on. And the fingers walked cautiously on, over the curiously muscleless, faintly ridged flesh, cooler than the rest of the body, across the tender nipple, into the deep cleft between, and out onto the breast that lay limp and helpless and hardly recognizable as round, lying like a hunting trophy over her other arm. Mine, she thought. My body. It lives on the breaths I breathe and the food I eat; the blood my heart pumps reaches all of me, into all my hidden crevices, from my scalp to my heels.
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  9. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    …at four o'clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of magic as the person who speaks.
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  10. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    She, 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.
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  11. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    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.
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  12. Robin McKinley _ Deerskin

    It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
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