Robin McKinley Quotes

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

How can you miss someone who’s right beside you?

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk.

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

Why I'm not where you are ...

No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

Women have an extraordinary ability to withdraw from the sexual relationship, to immunize themselves against it, in such a way that their men can be left feeling let down and insulted without having anything tangible to complain of.

He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

I only miss you when I'm breathing.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.