Wordsmitten Wednesday: Sunshine

My sunshine-self, my tree-self, my deer-self. Didn’t we outnumber the dark self?
— Robin McKinley, Sunshine

Wordsmitten Wednesday: Rose Daughter

But your Beast was not only greedy and prideful; he was also kind and painstaking and responsible, and he knew that his weaknesses were mortal and never pretended they were not.
–Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter

 

 

Wordsmitten Wednesday: Shadows and Sunshine

The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth.
— Robin McKinley, Sunshine