Top 500 Seanan McGuire Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The greatest joy is the joy of discovery. Followed closely by the joy of a discovery that doesn’t kill you. – Enid Healy.”

— Seanan McGuire

102. “Time is a funny thing; it doesn’t forgive the things we don’t see.”

— Seanan McGuire

103. “Biology is stupid and cruel and should feel bad about itself.”

— Seanan McGuire

104. “Remember that most people, human or cryptid, don’t like what they don’t understand. They’re not wired for that kind of compassion. Feel sorry for them, unless they form an angry mob and march on your house. When that happens, release the hounds. – Evelyn Baker.”

— Seanan McGuire

105. “Everyone is somebody’s bedtime story.”

— Seanan McGuire

106. “If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”

— Seanan McGuire

107. “Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived with monsters, and the monsters swore that they would never hurt him, because even monsters dream of living happily ever after.”

— Seanan McGuire

108. “Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”

— Seanan McGuire

109. “I love you more than fairy tales.”

— Seanan McGuire

110. “The hour was growing nigh for crustacean vengeance.”

— Seanan McGuire

111. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend; the earworm of my grandmother is my weapon.”

— Seanan McGuire

112. “Because, dear October, you’re the most passively suicidal person I’ve ever met, and that’s saying something. You’ll never open your wrists, but you’ll run head-first into hell. You’ll have good reasons. You’ll have great reasons, even. And part of you will be praying that you won’t come out again.”

— Seanan McGuire

113. “I never did like to leave a story unfinished.”

— Seanan McGuire

114. “Nobody gets to pick where they’re born or who they’re born to, but everybody gets to pick their family. Make good choices with yours.” –.”

— Seanan McGuire

115. “A mother is always proud of her children. Sometimes she doesn’t understand what the hell it is they’re doing, but that’s also part of motherhood. If you always understand your kids, they’re probably not telling you everything.”

— Seanan McGuire

116. “Hello,” she said. “Have you heard the good word of Wadjet, Protector of Egypt and great snake of the Milky Way?”

— Seanan McGuire

117. “Magic is real, in the sense that sometimes the world does things that can’t be explained using science as we currently understand it. Magic isn’t real, because once something becomes explainable, we start thinking of it as “science,” and we no longer pretend it doesn’t exist.”

— Seanan McGuire

118. “The sea witch was a surprisingly calm and competent driver. She used her turn signals.”

— Seanan McGuire

119. “You’re not tall, but you walk like you are.”

— Seanan McGuire

120. “Expectations are dangerous things. They’ve probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.”

— Seanan McGuire

121. “Some wounds never really heal. They just scab over enough to let you keep on going.”

— Seanan McGuire

122. “My window is closing, if that’s what you’re asking. Every day I wake up a little less linear, a little less lost, and one day I’ll be one of the women who says ‘I had the most charming dream,’ and I’ll mean it. Old enough to know what I’m losing in the process of being found.”

— Seanan McGuire

123. “Roller coasters are like math you can ride.”

— Seanan McGuire

124. “Following the rules didn’t make you a good person, just like breaking them didn’t make you a bad one, but it could make you an invisible person, and invisible people got to do as they liked.”

— Seanan McGuire

125. “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It’s much easier to be brave when you don’t believe that the monster under your bed is real.”

— Seanan McGuire

126. “Never forget that I loved you, and I did the best by you I could. You can forget everything else about me, but please. Don’t forget that.” – Enid Healy.”

— Seanan McGuire

127. “Nobody pronounces capital letters like an Aeslin mouse.”

— Seanan McGuire

128. “His smile was long gone, like it had never been there at all.”

— Seanan McGuire

129. “The Moors exist in eternal twilight, in the pause between the lightning strike and the resurrection. They are a place of endless scientific experimentation, of monstrous beauty, and of terrible consequences.”

— Seanan McGuire

130. “She looks like peaches and cream, like Saturday afternoons down by the frog pond, innocence and the American dream wrapped up in a single startlingly lovely package. It’s a lie, all of it. He believes in exploiting the world for his own gains, but she’d happily ignite the entire thing, if only to roast marshmallows in its embers.”

— Seanan McGuire

131. “Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. – Ada Lovelace.”

— Seanan McGuire

132. “I don’t do that. With anyone.” “You’re celibate?” “No. Celibacy is a choice. I’m asexual. I don’t get those feelings.”

— Seanan McGuire

133. “Any ending where you’re still standing on your own feet is a happy one.”

— Seanan McGuire

134. “You think cold pizza is a breakfast food,” I said. “Only if you put Captain Crunch on it,” she replied. There was a moment of silence as all of us considered this.”

— Seanan McGuire

135. “Adults seemed to view mannerly children as somehow superior, and hence deserving of better treatment. It was silly at best and dangerous at worst – some of the nastiest bullies in school were capable of pulling out exquisite manners at the drop of a hat – but it could work for her, when she wanted it to.”

— Seanan McGuire

136. “It made sense the same way everything in Faerie does: sideways and upside down, like looking in an underwater mirror.”

— Seanan McGuire

137. “Time is a concept invented by men who didn’t want everything to keep happening at once. Time is irrelevant.”

— Seanan McGuire

138. “There’s never been any love lost between us, and there probably never will be, but you keep your word and I know that if you say you’ll do this for me, you’ll do it. Your honor might survive betraying a friend because the friend would forgive you. I wouldn’t.”

— Seanan McGuire

139. “Sure, he’d covered up the creepier aspects, since there was “willing to share space with a taxidermically preserved alligator” and then there was “waking up every morning and looking at a whole shelf of different kinds of acid”. One was quaint. The other was disturbing.”

— Seanan McGuire

140. “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

141. “Enjoy yourself. There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again.”

— Seanan McGuire

142. “I smiled. I know how creepy I am when I smile. Whoever came up with “skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood” and thought people would find it attractive really wasn’t thinking things through.”

— Seanan McGuire

143. “There’s nothing more stubborn than youth, with the possible exception of old age.”

— Seanan McGuire

144. “The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would be pretty princesses, and not all little boys would be brave soldiers, also never occurred to them. Things might have been easier if those ideas had ever slithered into their heads, unwanted but undeniably important. Alas, their minds were made up, and left no room for such revolutionary opinions.”

— Seanan McGuire

145. “Your name is your heart, and you don’t give your heart away.”

— Seanan McGuire

146. “Let us speak, for a moment, on the matter of sisters. They can be enemies to fight or companions to lean upon: they can, at times, be strangers. They are not required to be friends, or to have involvement in one another’s lives, or to be anything more than strangers united by the circumstances of their birth. Still, there is a magic in the word “sister,” a magic which speaks of shared roots and hence shared branches, of a certain ease that is always to be pursued, if not always to be found.”

— Seanan McGuire

147. “A cat that looks bored is a cat that’s getting ready to pounce.”

— Seanan McGuire

148. “Because they’re the wrong colors, right? Somebody else’s rainbow.”

— Seanan McGuire

149. “There is kindness in the world, if we know how to look for it. If we never start denying it the door.”

— Seanan McGuire

150. “Every inch of ground on this planet is a palimpsest, scraped clean and overwritten a million times, leaving behind just as many ghosts.”

— Seanan McGuire