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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29334 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
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Seems I'm not alone in being enchanted with the beginning of Spindle's End. I love the description of “The magic in that country ...” -- especially the sentence about what happens if you don’t de-magic your kettle: ”It didn’t have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household -- magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself -- but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory.” So homey and down-to-earth (and also beautifully grammatical), and so clearly not-from-around-here.
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29359 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Mon, 17 May 2010 15:10 |
jkribbitdesigns
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"I am grateful to have a Chalice who sees clearly, and will gladly bear her weakness for her strength," said the Master.
-Chalice pg 258
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29382 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Tue, 18 May 2010 01:52 |
 UP4D
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Only choose one?! From Sunshine: "The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are."
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Carl Sagan
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29384 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Tue, 18 May 2010 02:45 |
judith
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With all of Robin's books that I've loved so much and re-read so often over the years -- especially my favorite, "Deerskin", of which, like most of the others, I have a home copy and a travelling copy (and, of those available on Kindle, a Kindle copy; not "Deerskin" alas) -- of all the parts that have moved me so deeply and meant so much to me since some time around 1981 or so -- I still have the following lines from "Deerskin" (pages 34-35) come into my head again and again at the oddest times:
"He looked toward Ash, who had re-emerged from the shrubbery, and was defecating politely by the side of one of the overgrown paths, flagged with the same rough-surfaced stone as the three small stairs down to the base of the tower. He jerked his eyes away from this edifying sight, and worked his lips once or twice before any words emerged."
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29446 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Wed, 19 May 2010 04:56 |
helbel
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Ok, this has been hard. There are *so many* sentences I just love. So I chose one that gets to me instead
"She never asked Corlath why she was here, or what her future was to be"
It's a breather sentence that makes you stop. I love the placing it in a paragraph all of its own. It just gets to me every time.
There is no such thing as too many books, only inadequate shelving
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29514 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Thu, 20 May 2010 08:11 |
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Black Bear
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I'm not eligible to win, of course.  But I can't resist throwing another line from Outlaws on the stack.
"Oh," she said, too bone-weary to pretend: "I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had gone on worshiping you as I did not long since." And she turned away hastily, and did not see that Little John would reach out to her; and, half-running, went to Tuck's cottage, where she could pull on her half-dry clothes, and become a proper outlaw again.
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29551 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Fri, 21 May 2010 05:03 |
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The Blue Sword is not just my favorite Robin McKinley book, it's my favorite book. Period. I read it at least once a year.
I love that Harry is tall. And plain. And loves horses. And adapts to being uprooted and then kidnapped so courageously. And learns fighting and riding without a saddle and the new language so quickly. I love that she earns the respect of the people at the General Mundy and the Damarians without trying to and without realizing it. I love how she changes from almost a non-entity to a person who changes her whole world, gradually over the course of the book. I love how she is all unknowingly and silently courageous, arguing with herself about what must be done, and then--finally--going and doing it.
I love the whole book.
Excuse me, I have to go read it again . . .
Scar
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
T.P.
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29576 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Fri, 21 May 2010 17:26 |
NotLonely
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Registered: October 2008
Location: SA |
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There are so many. But when Sunshine's grandmother tells us, "What we can do, we must do."
That kept me going through a bit of a rough patch.
Life always, always finds a way.
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29580 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Fri, 21 May 2010 18:17 |
Eleika
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Registered: October 2008
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From THE BLUE SWORD: "So that's where that thrice-blasted cat got to." - Corlath, re: Narknon, after the Laprun Trials.
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29602 is a reply to message #29597 ] |
Fri, 21 May 2010 21:15 |
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Black Bear
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Oooh, Vienna Teng is excellent McKinley background music.
And hey, that's the 100th entry on the forum!
[Updated on: Fri, 21 May 2010 21:18]
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29621 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 00:12 |
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Bratsche
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Washington State, USA |
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Robin's books have so many really good lines! I have loved the fist and last lines of Spindle's End since the first time I read the book, and I continue to enjoy them every single time I've read them since! I'll use the last one here:
"And the hay-bale mice, taking advantage of Flinx's preoccupation, shot out of the back of the bale, dodged their way out of the yard, dashed across the common, and arrived, panting, to tell their relatives at the pub about the princess and the fairy smith."
It's an absolutely satisifying ending to a wonderful book!
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| Re: Pegasus ARC contest [message #29623 is a reply to message #29026 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 01:21 |
Eleika
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Vancouver |
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Aww, I got the quote wrong because I haven't re-read it in at least a year and I was doing it from memory. Replace "got" with "disappeared".
Nonetheless, that has to be my favorite one-liner.
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