Seanan Mcguire Quotes

Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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

You’ll always come back to warn him, no matter how much danger it could put you in, no matter what it costs you, because he cared for you when you thought you were nothing. You were never nothing. That didn’t matter. Perception is everything in this world

~ Seanan Mcguire

Let's go commit senseless acts of science.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Luna had told us not to drop the rose, not to leave the path. But we never dropped the rose - it was on me the whole time - and we didn't leave the path, not really. We just took a shortcut through the shadows and the brush, something idiots have been doing in fairy tales since the beginning of time.

~ Seanan Mcguire

If anyone was going to get themselves murdered to guarantee they would remain the center of attention, it would be him.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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?

~ Seanan Mcguire

Hello?” I peered into the shadows.Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall.“And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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

~ Seanan Mcguire

Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.

~ Seanan Mcguire

October—You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after ‘tending to some business at the Queen’s Court.’ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, it’s your manners.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

Most cats don't like water, and despite her pretensions of tigerhood, Julie was no different. Yes, tigers have stripes; so do tabbies. If you want to know the difference, try tossing one of each into your swimming pool. Then I would recommend running.

~ Seanan Mcguire

In Tybalt's case, it means bloody control of the local Court of Cats. He became their king by right of blood; he's held the position by beating the crap out of anyone who tries to take it away. The Cait Sidhe take a more direct and bloody approach to succession than most of Faerie.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.

~ Seanan Mcguire

I have a swizzle stick shaped like a little monkey,” announced Rose. “Let’s help the dead man with his problem.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Now, if you will excuse me, a dead woman is trying to convince me to drink something that comes in layers.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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?

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

The moon is the friendliest of the celestial bodies, after all, glowing warm and white and welcoming, like a friend who wants only to know that all of us are safe in our narrow worlds, our narrow yards, our narrow, well-considered lives. The moon worries. We may not know how we know that, but we know it all the same: that the moon watches, and the moon worries, and the moon will always love us, no matter what.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Call me a sucker for a man who had a great ass who knows how to bake a macaroni casserole and can tolerate six hours of Sesame Street a day.

~ Seanan Mcguire

When the Root and Branch were young, when the Rose still grew unplucked upon the tree; when all our lands were new and green and we danced without care, then, we were immortal... We left those lands for the world where time dwells, dancing, that we might see the passage of the sun and the growing of the world. Here we may die, and where we can fall, and here King ___ has stopped his dancing.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Crazy gets all the knives.

~ Seanan Mcguire

I just feel like we’re starting to interfere on a level that’s sort of . . . extreme.” “But that’s what heroes do.

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I just wasn’t sure it was a good idea to approach heroing the way I’d always approached detecting. Can you really shake the world until justice falls out?

~ Seanan Mcguire

I've never liked being looked at like I was a hero. I always wind up letting someone down. Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes the only person who gets hurt is me.

~ Seanan Mcguire

After months - after years - of chaos and life-threatening situations and people stabbing me for no good reason, we'd somehow managed to find a moment to breathe. That didn't just deserve to be enjoyed. It deserved to be celebrated, held up as proof that the world was a good place and didn't actually need to be destroyed in order for me to have a nap.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it.

~ Seanan Mcguire

It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Even when she slept, she tossed and turned and squirmed, like she was secretly a hurricane forced into a girl-body and told to exist as best she could among people who had no idea what it meant to secretly be a weather pattern.

~ Seanan Mcguire