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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Remember, Very,” Dad used to say when I whined about the goggles, “if your opponent has night vision and you’ve never bothered to learn the local landmarks by anything but sight, you’re going to be in a bit of a pickle when it’s time to avoid getting disemboweled.”

251. “Remember, Very,” Dad used to say when I whined about the goggles, “if your opponent has night vision and you’ve never bothered to learn the local landmarks by anything but sight, you’re going to be in a bit of a pickle when it’s time to avoid getting disemboweled.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “It’s not that I don’t date. It’s that I don’t date. I am an essentially misanthropic person: I don’t like people much, and they usually reward me by not liking me either.”

252. “It’s not that I don’t date. It’s that I don’t date. I am an essentially misanthropic person: I don’t like people much, and they usually reward me by not liking me either.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Sometimes I think it must have been nice to be alive in the days where everyone knew that Faerie existed. Sure, bands of angry humans sometimes tried to kill us with iron and fire, but nobody questioned where we wanted to celebrate the seasons.”

253. “Sometimes I think it must have been nice to be alive in the days where everyone knew that Faerie existed. Sure, bands of angry humans sometimes tried to kill us with iron and fire, but nobody questioned where we wanted to celebrate the seasons.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators.”

254. “Corpses are incapable of offering informed consent, and are hence no better than vibrators.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “New York is a city built upon the cannibalized remains of its own past, constantly changing, constantly the same.”

255. “New York is a city built upon the cannibalized remains of its own past, constantly changing, constantly the same.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “The mountain was as powerful as the tide, just... in a different way.”

256. “The mountain was as powerful as the tide, just... in a different way.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “A valet pulled up in a sleek-lined sports car painted that particular shade of red peculiar to expensive vehicles and hookers’ lipstick.”

257. “A valet pulled up in a sleek-lined sports car painted that particular shade of red peculiar to expensive vehicles and hookers’ lipstick.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “If Dodger were awake, she’d happily tell him exactly how much of her blood is on the floor. She’d look at the mess around them. She’d calculate the surface area and volume of the liquid as easily as taking a breath, and she’d turn it into a concrete number, something accurate to the quarter ounce. She’d think she was being comforting, even if the number she came up with meant “I’m leaving you.” Even if it meant “there is no coming back from this.” Even if it meant goodbye.”

258. “If Dodger were awake, she’d happily tell him exactly how much of her blood is on the floor. She’d look at the mess around them. She’d calculate the surface area and volume of the liquid as easily as taking a breath, and she’d turn it into a concrete number, something accurate to the quarter ounce. She’d think she was being comforting, even if the number she came up with meant “I’m leaving you.” Even if it meant “there is no coming back from this.” Even if it meant goodbye.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Love is a powerful thing; it makes us all equals by making us briefly, beautifully human.”

259. “Love is a powerful thing; it makes us all equals by making us briefly, beautifully human.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Ah, ambushes. Those take me back. The best ones are the ones that start with chloroform and handcuffs, and end with death threats and knives. And by ‘best’ I mean ‘most irritating,’ you understand.”

260. “Ah, ambushes. Those take me back. The best ones are the ones that start with chloroform and handcuffs, and end with death threats and knives. And by ‘best’ I mean ‘most irritating,’ you understand.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

261. “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.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Adults can still tumble down rabbit holes and into enchanted wardrobes, but it happens less and less with every year they live. Maybe this is a natural consequence of living in a world where being careful is a necessary survival trait, where logic wears away the potential for something bigger and better than the obvious.”

262. “Adults can still tumble down rabbit holes and into enchanted wardrobes, but it happens less and less with every year they live. Maybe this is a natural consequence of living in a world where being careful is a necessary survival trait, where logic wears away the potential for something bigger and better than the obvious.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

263. “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.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

264. “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.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Hyper-religious sapient rodents who worship the Price family as gods.”

265. “Hyper-religious sapient rodents who worship the Price family as gods.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “She’d known girls on diets her entire life. Iron-rich blood had rarely, if ever, been their goal. Most of them had been looking for smaller waists, clearer complexions, and richer boyfriends, spurred on by a deeply ingrained self-loathing that had been manufactured for them before they were old enough to understand the kind of quicksand they were sinking in.”

266. “She’d known girls on diets her entire life. Iron-rich blood had rarely, if ever, been their goal. Most of them had been looking for smaller waists, clearer complexions, and richer boyfriends, spurred on by a deeply ingrained self-loathing that had been manufactured for them before they were old enough to understand the kind of quicksand they were sinking in.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you.”

267. “You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “A single revelation does not change a life. It is a start.”

268. “A single revelation does not change a life. It is a start.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?”

269. “The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “But she she didn’t want to be someone they could care for. She didn’t want to be a Kate or a Kitty or even a Kat – all perfectly lovely, serviceable names, for perfectly lovely, serviceable people. People she already knew, at six years of age, that she didn’t want to be. She was Katherine Lundy. Her family loved her as Katherine Lundy. If the children in the yard next door or on the playground couldn’t find her worth loving the same way, she wasn’t going to change for them.”

270. “But she she didn’t want to be someone they could care for. She didn’t want to be a Kate or a Kitty or even a Kat – all perfectly lovely, serviceable names, for perfectly lovely, serviceable people. People she already knew, at six years of age, that she didn’t want to be. She was Katherine Lundy. Her family loved her as Katherine Lundy. If the children in the yard next door or on the playground couldn’t find her worth loving the same way, she wasn’t going to change for them.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Actually, yes, I would say something like ‘there may be bears here.’ Bears are not a pleasant surprise for most people.”

271. “Actually, yes, I would say something like ‘there may be bears here.’ Bears are not a pleasant surprise for most people.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Never invite a death omen to a murder party.”

272. “Never invite a death omen to a murder party.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “If we encounter heretics while on the search for our brave Priestess, we will smite them down with the Fury of a Thousand Angry Rolling Pins!” squeaked the mouse. “Don’t know what that means, really. I’ve got to assume it’s pretty dire, since it’s coming from a talking mouse,” said Uncle Mike.”

273. “If we encounter heretics while on the search for our brave Priestess, we will smite them down with the Fury of a Thousand Angry Rolling Pins!” squeaked the mouse. “Don’t know what that means, really. I’ve got to assume it’s pretty dire, since it’s coming from a talking mouse,” said Uncle Mike.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “A pie?” Now she just sounded dubious. “Was it an evil pie?” “Yeah. Yeah, it was.”

274. “A pie?” Now she just sounded dubious. “Was it an evil pie?” “Yeah. Yeah, it was.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Each time I tell myself you have reached the summit of your strangeness, you find a way to climb still higher.” “Look at it this way: being married to me will never be boring.”

275. “Each time I tell myself you have reached the summit of your strangeness, you find a way to climb still higher.” “Look at it this way: being married to me will never be boring.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “IT CAN BE EASY, when hearing about someone else’s adventures in a far-off, magical land, to say “I would never choose the mundane world over the fantastical. I would run into rivers of rainbow as fast as my legs would carry me, and I would never once look back.” It is so often easy, when one has the luxury of being sure a thing will never happen, to be equally sure of one’s answers.”

276. “IT CAN BE EASY, when hearing about someone else’s adventures in a far-off, magical land, to say “I would never choose the mundane world over the fantastical. I would run into rivers of rainbow as fast as my legs would carry me, and I would never once look back.” It is so often easy, when one has the luxury of being sure a thing will never happen, to be equally sure of one’s answers.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “This was Confection, land of the culinary art become miracle; land of lonely children whose hands itched for pie tins or rolling pins, for the comfortable predictability of timers and sugar scoops and heaping cups of flour. This was a land where perfectly measured ingredients created nonsensical towers of whimsy and wonder – and maybe that was why they could be here, logical creatures that they were, without feeling assaulted by the world around them.”

277. “This was Confection, land of the culinary art become miracle; land of lonely children whose hands itched for pie tins or rolling pins, for the comfortable predictability of timers and sugar scoops and heaping cups of flour. This was a land where perfectly measured ingredients created nonsensical towers of whimsy and wonder – and maybe that was why they could be here, logical creatures that they were, without feeling assaulted by the world around them.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Everything is fluid. Everything needs someplace to go.”

278. “Everything is fluid. Everything needs someplace to go.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Coffee and corpses, that’s my life. Sometimes I hate being me.”

279. “Coffee and corpses, that’s my life. Sometimes I hate being me.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “May’s style was best described as “Jem and the Holograms meets Rainbow Brite.”

280. “May’s style was best described as “Jem and the Holograms meets Rainbow Brite.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “I think the rules were different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn’t care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes.”

281. “I think the rules were different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn’t care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Pass the dynamite.”

282. “Pass the dynamite.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Nothing good survives summarization. Not even pie, and pie is a universal constant of goodness.”

283. “Nothing good survives summarization. Not even pie, and pie is a universal constant of goodness.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.”

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

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Your head. It’s got its own undertow, you know, and if you swim too deep, it can suck you down. You can’t chase the tide. You need to stay on the shore and let it come to you.” She shook her head. “I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be fine. I wouldn’t do it even if I was still allowed to lie. Some things are too cruel even for a sea witch. But I will tell you that what’s on the other side of that door is never going to be as bad as the undertow in your own mind.”

285. “Your head. It’s got its own undertow, you know, and if you swim too deep, it can suck you down. You can’t chase the tide. You need to stay on the shore and let it come to you.” She shook her head. “I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be fine. I wouldn’t do it even if I was still allowed to lie. Some things are too cruel even for a sea witch. But I will tell you that what’s on the other side of that door is never going to be as bad as the undertow in your own mind.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “But he kept running. Sometimes, after all, that’s what must be said to make a hero: the willingness to keep running even after it becomes clear that the entire exercise is doomed to failure. Sometimes heroism is pressing on when the ending is already preordained.”

286. “But he kept running. Sometimes, after all, that’s what must be said to make a hero: the willingness to keep running even after it becomes clear that the entire exercise is doomed to failure. Sometimes heroism is pressing on when the ending is already preordained.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Pretty, pithy, petty Moon, born to a woman who had left the Market for the comforting climes of a world where fair value was something each person could negotiate for themselves, rather than having it imposed from without by an unimpeachable force of nature. Sweet, sharp, sour Moon, whose true name could never be given because it had been lost, who had seen her world narrow to an owl’s understanding of hunt and hole and hover. This story could so easily have belonged to her.”

287. “Pretty, pithy, petty Moon, born to a woman who had left the Market for the comforting climes of a world where fair value was something each person could negotiate for themselves, rather than having it imposed from without by an unimpeachable force of nature. Sweet, sharp, sour Moon, whose true name could never be given because it had been lost, who had seen her world narrow to an owl’s understanding of hunt and hole and hover. This story could so easily have belonged to her.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Better cranky and alive than cheerful and dead.”

288. “Better cranky and alive than cheerful and dead.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Love what you do. Even if it’s not what you thought you’d be doing when you were a kid, love what you do. Eventually, it’s going to kill you, and it would be a real pity if you died doing something you hate.” – Evelyn Baker.”

289. “Love what you do. Even if it’s not what you thought you’d be doing when you were a kid, love what you do. Eventually, it’s going to kill you, and it would be a real pity if you died doing something you hate.” – Evelyn Baker.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Someone made us. Someone made us, and then they separated us because we were dangerous when we were together.”

290. “Someone made us. Someone made us, and then they separated us because we were dangerous when we were together.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

291. “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.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Sometimes, good intentions do more damage than all the wicked plots in all the world.”

292. “Sometimes, good intentions do more damage than all the wicked plots in all the world.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Magical thinking might seem like nonsense to some people, but he had danced with skeletons by the light of a marigold moon, he had kissed the glimmering skull of a girl with no lips and loved her as he had never loved anything or anyone in his life, and he thought he’d earned a certain amount of nonsense, as long as it helped him get by.”

293. “Magical thinking might seem like nonsense to some people, but he had danced with skeletons by the light of a marigold moon, he had kissed the glimmering skull of a girl with no lips and loved her as he had never loved anything or anyone in his life, and he thought he’d earned a certain amount of nonsense, as long as it helped him get by.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

294. “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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Seanan McGuire Quote: “An unreported death is just a disappearance in its Sunday clothes.”

295. “An unreported death is just a disappearance in its Sunday clothes.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Sometimes fairness isn’t the goal. Sometimes it’s all about survival.”

296. “Sometimes fairness isn’t the goal. Sometimes it’s all about survival.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Grandma married him because he was the first man she’d ever met who wasn’t affected by her telepathy. This is the sort of thing that Internet dating sites never have a field for.”

297. “Grandma married him because he was the first man she’d ever met who wasn’t affected by her telepathy. This is the sort of thing that Internet dating sites never have a field for.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “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?”

298. “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?”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “They were supposed to grow up with their hands in each other’s pockets, compensating for one another’s weaknesses, encouraging one another’s strengths.”

299. “They were supposed to grow up with their hands in each other’s pockets, compensating for one another’s weaknesses, encouraging one another’s strengths.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Numbers are simple, obedient things, as long as you understand the rules they live by. Words are trickier. They twist and bite and require too much attention.”

300. “Numbers are simple, obedient things, as long as you understand the rules they live by. Words are trickier. They twist and bite and require too much attention.”

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