Top 500 Seanan McGuire Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Let my roots grow strong and my skin grow thick, that I might stand fast against all who would destroy me.”

— Seanan McGuire

452. “How quickly they grow apart, when there is something to be superior about.”

— Seanan McGuire

453. “We’ve much to do, and time does insist on being linear here, because it’s awful.”

— Seanan McGuire

454. “As always, my alarm went off too early, yanking me back into a world I wasn’t quite prepared to deal with. I looked automatically toward the window as I sat up. Only three bloody crescents marked the spots where bluebirds had managed to slam themselves to death against the glass.”

— Seanan McGuire

455. “She had thought to pay for a lifetime. Now, it seemed, she might pay for a life instead.”

— Seanan McGuire

456. “Painters and sculptors and designers, they take raw materials and turn them into art. Dancers turn themselves into art. We are poetry in motion.”

— Seanan McGuire

457. “At least someone was having a good day. Of course, the cats would have a good time in nuclear winter, as long as somebody was left to feed them.”

— Seanan McGuire

458. “His claws, draped in velvet and wrapped in affectation, are sharp enough to slaughter the world.”

— Seanan McGuire

459. “But that’s what family is, isn’t it? It’s traditions and trinkets that only matter when we hold them up against the mirrors of our lives, lending them meaning, lending them weight, until they become heavy enough to endure without us. We create the past in the things that we choose to remember about it. We turn everything into stories, and those stories matter because we say that they do. It’s all a wheel, and ours are the hands that turn it.”

— Seanan McGuire

460. “Someone with sharp enough eyes might see the instant where one wounded heart begins to rot while the other starts to heal.”

— Seanan McGuire

461. “Reality, it must sadly be said, has a way of complicating things, even things we might believe could never be that complicated.”

— Seanan McGuire

462. “Um, hello?” I raised a hand. “Not a traitor, and the Queen told us where to find you. Or do you think that we’re such major badasses that we fought our way through the knowe to come and loiter at you in an imposing fashion? Because I’ve got to say I’m flattered.”

— Seanan McGuire

463. “But Dr. Bleak said that conducting psychological experiments on the neighbors never ended well, and he was in charge, so Jack kept her thoughts to herself.”

— Seanan McGuire

464. “In that moment, Roger is sure – absolutely certain – of two things: Dodger is real, and he wants her to be his friend.”

— Seanan McGuire

465. “What is wrong? Is this related to the notice I received from Queen Windermere that a war was being beta-tested, and might be cleared for release? I do not have time to allow my coders to be slaughtered. It seems very inefficient.”

— Seanan McGuire

466. “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

467. “The laws of magic, like the laws of nature, are not always as balanced as they might seem.”

— Seanan McGuire

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

— Seanan McGuire

469. “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.”

— Seanan McGuire

470. “Alex would make a terrible Martian,” said Sarah. “He doesn’t have a giant laser and he’s not planning an Earth-shattering kaboom.”

— Seanan McGuire

471. “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.”

— Seanan McGuire

472. “She was a bitter, resentful, maladjusted kid who grew into an equally maladjusted teenager; it was only natural that we’d become friends the day we met.”

— Seanan McGuire

473. “Sloane’s laugh was brief and brittle, like ice breaking in an enchanted forest.”

— Seanan McGuire

474. “Nameless McBitchypants.”

— Seanan McGuire

475. “Flirting was safe, flirting was fun; flirting was a way of interacting with her peers without anyone realizing that there was anything strange about her. She could have flirted forever. It was just the things that came after flirting that she had no interest in.”

— Seanan McGuire

476. “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

477. “I kissed her like she was my Annabel Lee, and in some ways, in some places in my heart, I think that I’m kissing her still.”

— Seanan McGuire

478. “Was there a plan here, apart from ‘let’s all go to the meadow and get turned into confetti by the sheep’?”

— Seanan McGuire

479. “It was a train of thought that might have led her to some unpleasant conclusions had it been allowed to continue; this story might have ended differently. A single revelation does not change a life. It is a start.”

— Seanan McGuire

480. “The mind is an imperfect engine, and it does what it will with the information it receives.”

— Seanan McGuire

481. “That was sort of like being in someone else’s nightmare, only no one was naked and there were no lobsters on the walls.”

— Seanan McGuire

482. “Sometimes I envy kids for the way they dismiss the things that don’t matter. They still get bogged down in details, but at least they’re different details.”

— Seanan McGuire

483. “That’s because the worlds we experienced barely seemed to match up, despite being the same place.”

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484. “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

485. “Just because something was unfamiliar, that didn’t mean it had sharper teeth or crueler claws than the monster they already knew.”

— Seanan McGuire

486. “Faerie: where it’s only a little weird to realize that my boyfriend is older than the internal combustion engine.”

— Seanan McGuire

487. “She didn’t seem to understand that this was strange, that when the rest of them looked at the junkyard, they saw only failures, not the building blocks of new successes. This wasn’t their place. There was no question that it was hers.”

— Seanan McGuire

488. “There’s a reason you were all pulled into worlds that suited you so well. Imagine, for a moment, if you’d fallen into the world described by your neighbor instead.”

— Seanan McGuire

489. “He was a hero once, and it’s the nature of heroes to throw themselves headlong into impossible odds, believing that somehow they’ll come through them alive. The problem is that it’s also in the nature of heroes to die, and I had no way of being sure that Sylvester didn’t plan to do exactly that. I should know how heroes are. Somewhere along the way, I became one.”

— Seanan McGuire

490. “My hair is hungry,” announced Carol. That brought the conversation to its second screeching halt in as many minutes, as everyone turned to stare at the gorgon.”

— Seanan McGuire

491. “You’re like a horoscope in horticulture.”

— Seanan McGuire

492. “For us, places we went were home. We didn’t care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn’t have to pretend to be something we weren’t. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world.”

— Seanan McGuire

493. “This is terrible,” said Sumi brightly. “I mean, we knew it was going to be terrible when we followed a mad scientist and her dead girlfriend to a horrifying murder world, but this is bonus terrible. This is the awful sprinkles on the sundae of doom.”

— Seanan McGuire

494. “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.”

— Seanan McGuire

495. “As often as men slam me into things, you’d think I’d get laid more.”

— Seanan McGuire

496. “We need a plan.” “Don’t die,” suggested Ryan. “We need a better plan.” “Don’t get seriously injured,” said Uncle Mike. I eyed him.”

— Seanan McGuire

497. “Parents lied to children when they thought it was necessary, or when they thought that it would somehow make things better. It only made sense that children should lie to parents in the same way.”

— Seanan McGuire

498. “My personal favorite was the week they spent calling him “the God of Absolutely Never Smiling, No, Not Ever.”

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499. “Do you need anything else?” “Basket, oil, herbs,” she said. “And a pony, but I never get that, unless you count the Kelpies, which I don’t. Kelpies are too naughty to count as ponies.” “They’re also horrifying and full of teeth,” said Patrick.”

— Seanan McGuire

500. “Hearts are resilient. They can heal over and over again. That’s the good part. The bad part is that having a resilient heart means it can be broken so many times that it feels like it should never recover, like it should be nothing but a pile of shards in my chest.”

— Seanan McGuire