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  1. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    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.
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  2. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    Nothing?' said Corlath. 'I said there were two things. I have told you the first. You told us what you saw as you saw it. But this is the second thing: you spoke in the Old Tongue, what we call the Language of the Gods, that none knows any more but kings and sorcerers, and those they wish to teach it to. The language I just spoke to you, that you did not recognize- I was repeating the words you had said yourself, a moment before.
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  3. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master."
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  4. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    It is that I cannot see what I am doing or why, and it is unsettling always to live only in the moment as it passes. Oh, I know one never sees ahead or behind. But I see even less. It is like being blindfolded when everyone else in the room is not. No one can see outside the room – but everyone else can see the room. I would like to take my blindfold off.
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  5. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to....
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  6. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.
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  7. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,"she said."
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  8. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged.
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  9. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    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.
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  10. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done-
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  11. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--
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  12. Robin McKinley _ The Blue Sword

    --including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly--"
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