October Daye Quotes

#1. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence.
- Tybalt

Seanan McGuire

#2. There's always time for tea.
Lily

Seanan McGuire

#3. 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.

Seanan McGuire

#4. When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

Seanan McGuire

#5. For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#6. Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

William Penn

#7. This was the sort of situation that called for a certain amount of terror.

Seanan McGuire

#8. Friends
or lovers
are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. 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.

Seanan McGuire

#10. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

Cato The Elder

#11. Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12. Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets.

Marian Keyes

#13. Answers are bitter things, and once you get them, they're yours and you can't give them back. Did I want to know badly enough that I was willing to live with whatever answer she gave me?
Toby

Seanan McGuire

#14. But sometimes the pieces fall together the way they want to, and you can't change the story; all you can do is try to ride it out.

Seanan McGuire

#15. Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.

Seanan McGuire

#16. Whatever it was, it was the size of a cow, and looked like what you'd get if you somehow managed to cross a beaver and a crocodile, looked at the results, and decided what your new monster really needed was a bunch of extra teeth.

Seanan McGuire

#17. I might get arrested, but I wasn't likely to get dissected. This is my life.

Seanan McGuire

#18. There's always time for tea.

Seanan McGuire

#19. All men have a soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. I was getting tired of being in an endless succession of things called "the fight of a lifetime." Just once, I'd like to have the fight of a Tuesday afternoon.

Seanan McGuire

#21. Death doesn't bother me but murder makes me edgy, and my lack of weaponry suddenly felt like a potentially fatal mistake. If we got back to the hotel alive, I wasn't coming back here again without my knife and the baseball bat. And maybe a tank, if I could find one fast enough.

Seanan McGuire

#22. Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not in the individual, but in the philosophy, in the point of view. It is not the folly of the man which brings about this necessary fall; it is his wisdom.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

Roman Jakobson

#24. This world needs much more kissing and far less fighting.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#25. Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

Lytton Strachey

#26. Everything has a cost, October; remember that. It may be a long time before the bill comes due, but everything has a cost.
Luidaeg

Seanan McGuire

#27. If you wish to find your answers, you'll need to begin thinking, not merely reacting.
Lily

Seanan McGuire

#28. I'm not sorry," said Quentin. "One of them tried to take my throat away from me. With its teeth. I'm not you. I need my throat.

Seanan McGuire