Seanan McGuire Quotes
Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.
When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.
The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy
If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.
It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.
He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!
If anyone was going to get themselves murdered to guarantee they would remain the center of attention, it would be him.
For is it not said That Girl Knows No Fear, and Dammit, Fran, She's Going To Get Herself Et, and This Is From Your Side Of The Family, Jonathan, No One In My Family Has Ever Hugged A Basilisk Before?
Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I'm not a fan of pain.
This isn't a place for lies or pretending everything's all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn't be here. Now. Where did you go?
Don't let anyone tell you, ever, that this is a zero-sum game. Your genius does not threaten me. It delights and inspires me.
And you shouldn't believe all the press about Ouija boards. They can't be used in an exorcism. Trivial Pursuit can, but that's another story.
I just feel like we’re starting to interfere on a level that’s sort of . . . extreme.” “But that’s what heroes do.
Just thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve managed to wind up covered in blood, ” I said. “It’s like a new trend. A blood-free trend.
I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids.
When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.
Faeries are real. Magic is real. My tendency to greet dangerous situations by plunging in headfirst and seeing how long it takes to get myself covered head to toe in blood is also real.
Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left.
You're nobody's rainbow. You're nobody's princess. You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.
Hope means you keep holding on to things that won't ever be so again.
I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been. —Enid Healy
I am so tired of this gothic crap, ” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.
Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live.
I didn't look back. Sometimes, not looking back is the only mercy the world has left to show.
My lord was never sane, but he was my love, once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that the once upon a times go when they die.
Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.
Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.
If you wish to find your answers, you’ll need to begin thinking, not merely reacting.-- Lily
If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.
The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.
I would love a sandwich, ' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.
You want to go back, and so you hold on to the habits you learned while you were traveling, because it's better than admitting the journey's over.
I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.