Top 100 Seanan McGuire Quotes
#1. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby
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#2. That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up.
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#3. Doors opened everywhere. Maybe one day, the children of this world who had gone to that world to save themselves would see a door that didn't fit right with the walls around it, something with a doorknob made of a moon, or a knocker that winked. Maybe they could still go home,
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#4. Promises bind our kind as surely as iron chains or ropes of human hair. The fae never swear by anything we don't believe in. We don't ask for thanks and we don't offer them; no promises, no regrets, no chains. No lies.
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#5. Going to straight-up fucking murder you, and drink a latte out of your skull." "You forgot to mention poison," I said, taking
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#6. I've always thought of joggers as being sort of like Blind Michael and his crew: deserving of respect, but slightly psychotic. Who in their right minds would want to get out of bed and run around in their underwear before noon?
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#7. It can't all be dreams because a broken dream will kill you as surely as a nightmare will, and with a lot less mercy. At least the nightmares don't smile while they take you down.
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#8. I hate paperwork," announced Andy, looking up from his desk. "How is it that we have a form for 'you got a gingerbread house dropped on your head'? How do we have a job where that's something you'd need a form for?" "There's
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#9. If you wish to find your answers, you'll need to begin thinking, not merely reacting.
Lily
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#10. I revised my earlier thought about the risks of dancing. I was looking at a sprained ankle, a few pulled muscles, and maybe a homicide charge if Sasha didn't relax before the end of the rehearsal.
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#11. Sometimes romance is of less importance than the feeling of being absolutely safe: of knowing that nothing and no one can hurt you, because the person who loves you most in all the world will destroy them if they try.
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#12. These are friendly people," I said, bending to begin work on his ankles. "Remind me to hit them a lot if I get the chance.
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#13. Ryan, I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered," I said solemnly.
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#14. I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.
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#15. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.
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#16. I had to admire the Evil Dead-level dedication that went into thinking "I'll take a chainsaw into battle against a werewolf," even as I wanted to find out who thought it was a good idea and shake them until they realized the error of their ways. Almost
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#17. Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong.
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#18. Sadly, as I had come to learn, sometimes being a pincushion is my purpose in life.
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#19. A pie?" Now she just sounded dubious. "Was it an evil pie?" "Yeah. Yeah, it was.
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#20. Lying to you would be a mistreatment of what that love means.
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#21. I feel like a giant Barbie."
"I do not become romantically involved with plastic people," said Tybalt dryly.
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#22. That's where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn't matter where I am, whether I think I'm a woman or a fish or something in-between. I've never really left the pond. I still can't breathe.
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#23. Sloane slipped into the room the way a knife slips into a wound: silently, and with the potential to do a lot of damage to anything that happened to get in her way.
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#24. She wanted to be a perfect little princess. All she did was turn herself into a flawed reflection of an ideal she could never achieve.
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#25. The best thing you can ever do for the people who love you is to make it home alive.
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#27. The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?
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#28. The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.
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#29. Love doesn't care what you want. Love doesn't care if it's convenient. Love pursues its own agenda, and there's no bullet in the world that can take it down. More's the pity.
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#31. He on his way." "Maybe he'll bring a sword." "Maybe he'll bring a tank." I shook my head. "I hate being rescued." "Then why aren't we trying to get to the car?" "Because I hate being eaten even more.
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#32. Lindworms are a sign of a healthy ecosystem," I said, straightening. "Now let's get out of here before the healthy ecosystem eats us.
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#33. There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.
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#34. Just because I wouldn't go back if you paid me, that doesn't mean I want to forget a second of what happened to me. I wouldn't be who I am if I hadn't gone to Prism.
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#35. It's better to act than it is to react. Acting gets you in trouble. Reacting all too frequently gets you dead.
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#37. My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You can learn anything you wish to know about me merely by licking you fingers." Tybalt laughed a little. "Yes, you may ask me a question.
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#38. What just happened?" asked Jeff. "Sloane just yelled at the story until it went away," I said blankly.
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#39. Love you can spend like currency isn't really love.
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#40. He shrugged. "You got out of bed. The universe does seem to take that as a personal affront." The
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#41. See, Quentin, that's why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.
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#42. Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.
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#43. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence.
- Tybalt
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#44. It used to be all black, like my mother's. When I danced with the Lord of the Dead for the first time, he said it was beautiful, and he ran his fingers though it. All the hair turned white around them, out of jealousy. That's why I only have five black streaks left. Those are the parts he touched.
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#45. I have a talent for complicating situations, I said.
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#47. Logic and loss aren't always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that's okay.
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#48. Now, if you will excuse me, a dead woman is trying to convince me to drink something that comes in layers.
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#49. And I won't let anybody hurt the boys, since they're too wussy to defend themselves.
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#50. Real' is a four-letter word, and I'll thank you to use it as little as possible while you live under my roof.
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#51. I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.
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#52. It smells like mulberries."
"Sometimes it smells like bananas or artichokes.
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#53. It's easy to say that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few when no one's holding a gun to your head.
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#54. Yes, that's a brilliant idea. Choose the career path most likely to lead to an early, painful death, and you're sure to find job satisfaction.
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#55. The part of me that actually cares about being a decent person promptly punched my inner researcher in the jaw and stuffed her in a closet at the back of my head, to be retrieved later.
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#56. Hello carnivore,' said the mouse priest. He turned and bowed to Uncle Mike and Dominic. 'Hail to the High Priest of Goddammit Eat Something Already, and to the God of Hard Choices in Dark Places.' Ryan blinked. 'What?' 'It's a mouse thing, just roll with it, you'll be happier that way,' I advised.
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#57. The horror and venom that infused her final word was practically visible, dripping from her mouth and running down to the floor like so much poisoned water.
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#58. I only looked when I was sure he couldn't see me. Some games are too dangerous to play.
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#59. FORGIVE OR NOT, AS YOU WILL, AND KNOW ALWAYS THAT YOU ARE A HURRICANE IN THE BODY OF A GIRL, GLORIOUS AND FEARSOME AND WONDERFUL AND CAPABLE OF ANYTHING.
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#61. The trick to doing things people say are impossible is confidence. As long as you seem to know what you're doing, and never hesitate, you're very unlikely to face any challenges. People don't like to break illusions, even when they don't know that's what they're looking at. - Kevin Price
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#62. Some things we have to hide from science, waiting for the day when people will be ready to deal with the idea of talking mice or fish with fur. Other things science hides from itself, because no one really wants the night to be dark and filled with monsters. That era has passed.
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#63. Australia basically holds the copyright on "weird ecosystem." The only place where you're going to find weirder things is at the bottom of the ocean, and no one suggests that you go there for a fun family vacation.)
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#64. That's because the worlds we experienced barely seemed to match up, despite being the same place.
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#65. 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?
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#66. This isn't an army marching on the Mists. This isn't a case you have to solve. It's just a bunch of nobles coming to puff their chests out at each other an try to look important. Do what I do. Bring popcorn.
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#67. Younger than she should have been, older than any child should ever need to be.
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#69. This was always the difficult part, back when she'd been at her old school: explaining that "asexual" and "aromantic" were different things.
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#70. (Australia. The only continent designed with a difficulty rating of "ha ha fuck you no.")
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#71. I visit her grave as often as I can. I leave bouquets of rosemary and rue, and I tell her that I'm sorry, and I promise her that next time I'll do better. Next time someone makes me a hero, I'll save them.
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#72. We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades - Frances Brown
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#73. The family stayed put for a few years, largely due to issues involving a contract with a demon, an open dimensional rift, and preschool,
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#74. The normally ninety-minute drive from Marin to Muir Woods only took about an hour.
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#75. There's one thing the Brothers Grimm got very, very wrong: There's no such thing as "ever after." That would require that the story ever end.
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#76. Or do you truly mean for us to believe that when you were running along rainbows, you never saw anyone fall? Someone plummets out of the sky, they're not going to get up and walk away from it. They're going to die.
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#77. That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.
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#79. If you offered me the chance to do it all over, knowing what I know now, after the things I've seen ... I'd shoot you in the head. That ain't the kind of thing you ask a lady. - Frances Brown
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#80. Hopefully, anyone who saw a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a wheelchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.
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#81. I don't do that. With anyone." "You're celibate?" "No. Celibacy is a choice. I'm asexual. I don't get those feelings.
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#82. Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.
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#83. If you didn't think I knew what I know, why are you telling me what you think I didn't know but might have come here looking to find out?" Shelby paused. "I'm sorry. I'm not sure even I understand what I just said.
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#84. Danny. You're a Troll, driving a cab. Yesterday, I was a superhero, and today I'm addicted to jam. Jam. Do you really think we get to pass judgment on what does and does not get to exist?
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#85. The mythology warped and twisted back along itself until Buffy Summers, the girl who once railed against the unfairness of being Chosen, looked at a squadron of girls who were just like she'd been and took away their right to Choose.
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#86. Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?"
"Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.
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#87. Change sucks. No one's going to argue about that. Change is hard and painful and sometimes we wind up losing things we wanted to keep forever.
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#88. Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.
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#89. I'm going to kill you." "You look fine." "I'm quite serious. I'm going to murder you. I'm going to murder you to death. And then, after I've finished doing that, I'm going to kill you again, just to be sure you got the point." "Shelby, honestly, you look fine.
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#90. Also you don't have to worry about stumbling over any sexual fetishes unless you're checking somebody's browser history, and I figure once was enough to teach you that lesson." Dominic choked on his milkshake. "I hate you." Sarah sipped her shake, expression mild.
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#91. Nudity. "Hello," she said. "Have you heard the good word of Wadjet, Protector of Egypt and great snake of the Milky Way?
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#92. 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.
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#93. This was the sort of situation that called for a certain amount of terror.
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#94. Let's go get ready to do something incredibly stupid."
"Business as usual, then," he said, and fled the kitchen, laughing, before I could swat him.
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#95. Ever cater a banquet for royalty? . . . Well, don't. It's awful. Just awful. -- Madden
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#96. I dislike the dead returning to life," said Etienne, his shoulders slumping again. "It's untidy and inappropriate.
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#97. Do we have to have the 'don't lie to the telepath' talk again? It won't take long. I say 'don't lie to the telepath, it never works,' you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit.
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#98. When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
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#99. 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.
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#100. 'Seanan McGuire' is my real name; if I'm being silly and third-person about it, she's a frequently cranky, foul-mouthed Disney Princess on vacation in the real world, where she studies diseases, cuddles reptiles, watches lots of horror movies, and goes to as many corn fields as possible.
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