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Pegasus ARC contest [message #29026]

Sat, 08 May 2010 20:16

jmeadows
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Registered: September 2008
Location: Virginia, USA

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This is the thread you can use to enter the Pegasus ARC contest.

[Updated on: Fri, 30 July 2010 13:00] by Moderator

Smooshes!

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29028 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 20:31

Akai
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Seattle, WA

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I love the scene in 'Blue Sword' where Harry wakes up in the King's Tent crying, and Corlath hears her and can't do anything to make it better. Always gets to me, every time.

self respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
--H.L. Mencken

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29029 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 21:31

equus_peduus
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Registered: September 2009
Location: France

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"She scowled at her glass of orange juice." - The Blue Sword.

I don't know why, but this has been my favorite first line of any book, ever, since I first read it, whenever that was. Somehow it reached out and grabbed me, and it's stuck with me since. There are tons of other really great lines and scenes in Robin's books (including a lot of the ones that have been posted so far on Facebook), but this is my favorite Smile

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29031 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 22:01

ravenclawgirl
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Registered: February 2009
Location: Ohio

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And yet I think he [Robin] would quench that fire in him if he could - perhaps because it throws such dark shadows around the things he does not say. ~Cecily, Outlaws of Sherwood

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29035 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 22:15

rilke
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Registered: May 2010

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The part in The Hero and the Crown where Luthe puts his ear to the ground listening to Talat's fading hoofbeats, after he says goodbye to Aerin.

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29037 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 22:23

criscopolo
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Registered: October 2008
Location: California

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The whole scene was the most potent culmination of a book that I had ever read. It touched me more deeply and spoke to me on a level that nothing else - human or book - ever had. Thanks, Robin.

"But I do not know how strong I am, she said, I cannot promise. It is enough, said Ossin, For who can make such promises? No one of us is so whole that he can see the future." - Deerskin

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29040 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 22:27

kstevensxyz
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Registered: May 2010
Location: Oregon

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It's so hard to narrow down to just one.

The Blue Sword: " 'The Outlander girl,' Faran said slowly, with the air of an honest man who will be just at any cost. 'I did not know the Outlanders taught their children such pride. She has done herself honor on this ride.' "'

-Kathy

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29041 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 22:50

zerlina
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Registered: May 2009
Location: Invercargill, New Zealand

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From "Spindle's End": The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust.

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29043 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 22:58

Laura
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Midwestern USA

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I have so many it's ridiculous. But since I have "Sunshine" out,
"I went with him into the night."

SUCH a good ending.

Known on both Ravelry and LibraryThing as thelorelei.

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29045 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 23:18

holmes44
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Sutton,Quebec

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hero and the crown-when aerin puts out her hand in the air and talat puts his himself there so she doesn't fall over.

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29046 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 23:28

WandaV
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Alabama

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"You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart." Ossin speaking to Lissar in "Deerskin". This line melts me. So romantic!

(picking one line was more difficult than picking one dog!)

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29047 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 23:29

bonniebythepeak
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Registered: April 2010
Location: Colorado, USA

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Con said, "I would rather bear you company a few more hours than slake my hunger." Sunshine (So hard to pick only one line.)

"All their life... had only been the cover and title page, now at last, they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story." C.S. Lewis

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29048 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 23:42

roisindubh211
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Registered: October 2009

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From Spindle's End: "Fish, which flew through that most dangerous element, water, were believed not to exist."

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29049 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sat, 08 May 2010 23:44

librarykat
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Redneck Riviera

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Very young Beauty's petulant but sensible complaint that she would much rather be Beauty than Honour won me over back in 1978, and I have been a Robin McKinley fan ever since.

[Updated on: Sun, 09 May 2010 00:08]

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29050 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 00:23

ms.grae
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Registered: May 2009
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

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"Now you're going to say something opaque and oracular about the bond between us, aren't you?"
-Sunshine.

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29051 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 00:26

angiegirl
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Registered: January 2009
Location: Rocky Mountains

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From Sunshine: "Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe."

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29053 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 00:35

livvispatula
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Texas

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From Deerskin: "No one of us is so whole that he can see the future." This book got me through what has possibly been the most awful day of my whole life.

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29054 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 00:37

SnarkyWriter
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Registered: November 2008
Location: Tennessee, USA

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From Sunshine: "I didn't even hear them coming. But then you don't, when it's vampires."

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29059 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 01:26

elainekaelar
Messages: 13
Registered: October 2008
Location: Fresno, CA

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"It was a dumb thing to do, but it wasn't that dumb."

This line FTW. I need a new copy of Sunshine, mine has just fallen apart. I still need to sort the pages back in order after they fell out of the binding.

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Sun, 09 May 2010 02:47

baybelletrist
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Registered: October 2008
Location: USA

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I've always loved this bit from The Blue Sword: "There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost."

But that is too long for Twitter, so I'll have to come up with a shorter one for that entry. Woe. HOW EVER WILL I FIND ANOTHER GOOD ROBIN LINE? *is silly*

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29061 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 03:16

amp15
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Registered: February 2009
Location: Denmark

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"Huh! I'd rather be Beauty."
That's a so non-sappy reason for Beauty to be Beauty.

Anette, the Great Dane

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29062 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 06:29

Guest

I was a horse mad 12yr old girl when The Blue Sword was published, and I adored it with all my heart, and nearly 30 years later I still do.

[Updated on: Sun, 09 May 2010 06:32] by Moderator

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29065 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 08:56

Jeanne Marie
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Kansas City

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I love Jake's description of how exhausting it is taking care of an hours old dragonlet!
JM in KC

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29067 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 10:28

katroseb13
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Registered: March 2009

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"Then he looked up abruptly, as if from some unfathomable depth of thought, and saw her: their eyes met." -The Blue Sword

This scene always struck me as an amazingly creative and interesting story idea, and, this being my first Robin McKinley book, made me immediately fall in love with her stories.

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29069 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 10:57

cmwren
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Registered: March 2010
Location: Cape May, New Jersey, USA

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"If 'in' was the right preposition. Out? On? Up? With? After? Over? English has too many prepositions."

~ Sunshine

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29071 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 13:20

claning
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Registered: February 2010
Location: California

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"Everyone disappeared into the walls like mice, except they closed the doors behind them." -- Aerin's audience with her father after killing her first dragon.

I don't know how many times I've read that book and it makes me laugh out loud every time.

O Chris Laning <claning@igc.org> - Davis, California
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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29075 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 14:48

Catlady
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Registered: December 2008
Location: Aurora, Colorado

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That part of the reason her Guardian had chosen her as apprentice was because she would make just that sort of wrong decision, and if it lost them the world, then so it did.
~Water Horse

Or, if that doesn't count because it's from a short story, here's my favorite from Sunshine:

He was my ally and if I was going to let him down, which I probably was, at least let me not do it because I just lost it.

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29076 is a reply to message #29075 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 15:26

Black Bear
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Location: Indianapolis, IN USA

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Short stories are absolutely fine! Smile

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29080 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 15:54

mgw1979
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Registered: May 2010

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"I never heard them coming. Of course you don't, when they're vampires."

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29083 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 16:17

cgbookcat1
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Massachusetts

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One of my favorite parts of Spindle's End is the description of de-scaling teakettles (and the callouses that result).

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29089 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 18:32

mayasings
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Registered: July 2009
Location: Jerusalem

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"She could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it." ~ The Hero and the Crown

there isn't a better beginning to a book. I promise.

"they say that absence makes the heart grow fungus".

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29095 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 19:36

silksieve
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Registered: May 2010
Location: New York

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I've been following the blog on an RSS feed, so I haven't participated in the forums yet--but this is a great excuse! Smile

I have two favorite moments: In the Blue Sword, when Harry wins the lapruni trials and everyone recognizes her as "Damalur-sol" and at the end of Beauty, when the transformed beast apologizes for being too old while Beauty does not recognize herself in the mirror.

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29096 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 19:37

scherizade
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Registered: May 2010

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The Blue Sword: "[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous."

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29097 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 20:44

albensmom
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Registered: May 2010
Location: Canada

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I'm going to choose the beginning of Deerskin: "Many years later she remembered how her parents had looked to her when she was a small child: her father as tall as a tree, and merry and bright and golden, with her beautiful black-haired mother at his side."

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Sun, 09 May 2010 21:08

Honey_Bee
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Location: Tennessee

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"[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child." - The Blue Sword

Love this line!

_{"All knowledge is worth having."}

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Sun, 09 May 2010 21:11

cmcbride
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Registered: March 2010
Location: South Dakota

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"She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child." - The Blue Sword

I know someone just posted this, but I love this line. Smile

[Updated on: Sun, 09 May 2010 21:12]

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Sun, 09 May 2010 21:17

Black Bear
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Location: Indianapolis, IN USA

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Duplicates are fine! They're probably unavoidable. Smile

Since it's a random draw, I'll just be assigning a number to each entry in each venue, and then rolling some of my vast collection of polyhedral dice to determine the winning #.

So glad to see some new faces on the forum! Please feel free to check out other threads as well, we've got some great book recommendation threads and food/recipe threads, as well as the blog post forum where Robin's a regular participant in discussions of her posts!

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29104 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Sun, 09 May 2010 22:11

Jeanine
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Florida

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IT was a dumb thing to do but then it wasn't that dumb. Sunshine, line 1 page 1. Followed by the rest of the book, all good lines all!

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29109 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Mon, 10 May 2010 01:18

danceswithpahis
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Registered: October 2008

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This is a TOUGH choice, but I decided one a line from "The Hero and the Crown" after Aerin kills her first dragons. A young girl from the village has just thanked Aerin and Aerin has smiled at her and responded back. The line that sticks with me is this:

"The girl grew to adulthood remembering the first sol's smile, and her seat on her proud white horse."

Just a small line about a totally minor character that has always reminded me of how our actions have ripple effects that we never see, and that may totally touch someone else's life.

BTW, quick question: do we have to stick to the same favorite line in other entries? Or can we pick a different one?

"Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!"

-- Lilo ("Lilo and Stitch")

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Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29113 is a reply to message #29026 ]

Mon, 10 May 2010 11:38

aenger
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Registered: May 2010

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"You see, we remembered to come back." Lily from The Healer (Knot in the Grain). This is a very quiet story, and one that sticks with you.

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