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Seanan McGuire Quote: “I love ‘sort of,’ ”I said dryly. “It’s such a beautifully useless phrase.”

301. “I love ‘sort of,’ ”I said dryly. “It’s such a beautifully useless phrase.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “This was always the difficult part, back when she’d been at her old school: explaining that “asexual” and “aromantic” were different things.”

302. “This was always the difficult part, back when she’d been at her old school: explaining that “asexual” and “aromantic” were different things.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Every city is the Impossible City, when a savior is needed badly enough.”

303. “Every city is the Impossible City, when a savior is needed badly enough.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “My lord was never sane, but he was my love, once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that the once upon a times go when they die.”

304. “My lord was never sane, but he was my love, once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that the once upon a times go when they die.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “You’re a nerd,” I said, and swatted him in the arm. “You seemed all cool and mysterious back when I was afraid of you, but I’m not afraid of you anymore, and I can see clearly that you are a nerd.”

305. “You’re a nerd,” I said, and swatted him in the arm. “You seemed all cool and mysterious back when I was afraid of you, but I’m not afraid of you anymore, and I can see clearly that you are a nerd.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Like a key that finds its keyhole, Nancy was finally home.”

306. “Like a key that finds its keyhole, Nancy was finally home.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “The rot at the root isn’t the revolution, it’s the ruler who refuses to resign. King-breaking is a symptom of sickness, not the cause.”

307. “The rot at the root isn’t the revolution, it’s the ruler who refuses to resign. King-breaking is a symptom of sickness, not the cause.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “I am a genius of infinite potential and highly limited patience. People shouldn’t try me so.”

308. “I am a genius of infinite potential and highly limited patience. People shouldn’t try me so.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Life was one long series of efforts to reach the golden mean, where everything was the way that it was supposed to be.”

309. “Life was one long series of efforts to reach the golden mean, where everything was the way that it was supposed to be.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “That is a pointless spiral of fear and ignorance and I refuse to let it claim me. Try harder! Her mind brillant, traitorous, prone to devouring itself did not stop fretting but at least she was in control again. It was odd to think of ones own mind the enemy. It wasnt always.”

310. “That is a pointless spiral of fear and ignorance and I refuse to let it claim me. Try harder! Her mind brillant, traitorous, prone to devouring itself did not stop fretting but at least she was in control again. It was odd to think of ones own mind the enemy. It wasnt always.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “There’s nothing wrong with making a last stand. Just make sure you bring enough grenades to share with the entire class. – Alice Healy.”

311. “There’s nothing wrong with making a last stand. Just make sure you bring enough grenades to share with the entire class. – Alice Healy.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Her mind – brilliant, traitorous, prone to devouring itself – did not stop fretting, but at least she was in control again. It was odd, to think of one’s own mind as the enemy. It wasn’t always. The tendency to obsession and irrational dread was matched by focus and attention to detail, both of which served her well in her work.”

312. “Her mind – brilliant, traitorous, prone to devouring itself – did not stop fretting, but at least she was in control again. It was odd, to think of one’s own mind as the enemy. It wasn’t always. The tendency to obsession and irrational dread was matched by focus and attention to detail, both of which served her well in her work.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “He sounded less sad than simply resigned. This was the way he had always expected the world to go; snatching joy out of his hands for the sheer sake of doing it, and not because he, personally, had done anything to earn the loss.”

313. “He sounded less sad than simply resigned. This was the way he had always expected the world to go; snatching joy out of his hands for the sheer sake of doing it, and not because he, personally, had done anything to earn the loss.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “For others, the lure of a world where they fit is too great to escape, and they will spend the rest of their lives rattling at windows and peering at locks, trying to find the way home.”

314. “For others, the lure of a world where they fit is too great to escape, and they will spend the rest of their lives rattling at windows and peering at locks, trying to find the way home.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Magic doesn’t have to be flashy and huge. Sometimes it’s the subtle things that are the most effective of all.”

315. “Magic doesn’t have to be flashy and huge. Sometimes it’s the subtle things that are the most effective of all.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “At least that would be a new disgusting swamp experience, instead of a disgusting swamp experience I’d already had several times that day.”

316. “At least that would be a new disgusting swamp experience, instead of a disgusting swamp experience I’d already had several times that day.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “There is no fighting in the Library. Anyone who starts a fight or responds to a challenge will be thrown out. You may think you can take me. You’re probably right. But none of you can take the Library.”

317. “There is no fighting in the Library. Anyone who starts a fight or responds to a challenge will be thrown out. You may think you can take me. You’re probably right. But none of you can take the Library.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Airplanes: essentially buses that fly, and hence have the potential to drop out of the sky at any moment, spreading your insides – which will no doubt become your outsides sometime during the collision – across whatever you happen to have been flying over. Since we were flying mainly over ocean, I was the sure sharks would appreciate our sacrifice.”

318. “Airplanes: essentially buses that fly, and hence have the potential to drop out of the sky at any moment, spreading your insides – which will no doubt become your outsides sometime during the collision – across whatever you happen to have been flying over. Since we were flying mainly over ocean, I was the sure sharks would appreciate our sacrifice.”

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

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

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “When a scientist speaks, it behooves the ordinary soul to listen.”

320. “When a scientist speaks, it behooves the ordinary soul to listen.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

321. “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.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Toby, if I say challenging him is futile, that you’ll change nothing and only grant the omen you saw this morning power over you... if I say you can save your life and your heart by walking away from this, will it matter?” Part of me – most of me – wanted to say, “Yes, it would matter; please tell me to stay here. If you tell me, I’ll stay.” I didn’t want to go. I’m not a hero; I never have been. I just do what has to be done. But when you get right down to it, isn’t that the definition of hero?”

322. “Toby, if I say challenging him is futile, that you’ll change nothing and only grant the omen you saw this morning power over you... if I say you can save your life and your heart by walking away from this, will it matter?” Part of me – most of me – wanted to say, “Yes, it would matter; please tell me to stay here. If you tell me, I’ll stay.” I didn’t want to go. I’m not a hero; I never have been. I just do what has to be done. But when you get right down to it, isn’t that the definition of hero?”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Sometimes closure is the only gift worth giving.”

323. “Sometimes closure is the only gift worth giving.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Your entire life has been a succession of things you are not equipped for. And while you may have, as you so charmingly say, screwed some of them up, you have, in the main, come through spectacularly well.”

324. “Your entire life has been a succession of things you are not equipped for. And while you may have, as you so charmingly say, screwed some of them up, you have, in the main, come through spectacularly well.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “It wasn’t much. It wasn’t enough. It was everything I deserved.”

325. “It wasn’t much. It wasn’t enough. It was everything I deserved.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Hail the purchase of the socks!” cried the mice, before dissolving into general rejoicing.”

326. “Hail the purchase of the socks!” cried the mice, before dissolving into general rejoicing.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “She’s more of a ‘standing really still and hoping nothing eats her’ sort of girl.”

327. “She’s more of a ‘standing really still and hoping nothing eats her’ sort of girl.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “I drop to my knees, more tired than I should be. Exhaustion after death just isn’t fair.”

328. “I drop to my knees, more tired than I should be. Exhaustion after death just isn’t fair.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luidaeg: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.”

329. “Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luidaeg: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “The history of the human race has been one long quest to find, novel things and then kill, eat, or enslave them. There’s a reason the aliens haven’t made an appearance yet, is what I’m saying.”

330. “The history of the human race has been one long quest to find, novel things and then kill, eat, or enslave them. There’s a reason the aliens haven’t made an appearance yet, is what I’m saying.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Paperwork is a magic in and of itself. It makes spouses out of strangers, makes homes out of houses.”

331. “Paperwork is a magic in and of itself. It makes spouses out of strangers, makes homes out of houses.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Hope means you keep holding on to things that won’t ever be so again.”

332. “Hope means you keep holding on to things that won’t ever be so again.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Shooting to wound was only a few inches from missing your target entirely, and a different few inches from killing them.”

333. “Shooting to wound was only a few inches from missing your target entirely, and a different few inches from killing them.”

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

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

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Here, bodies are just another tool, to be stolen or traded as the people in power see fit. Burning down someone’s lab before they’ve been properly vanquished, on the other hand, is rude.”

335. “Here, bodies are just another tool, to be stolen or traded as the people in power see fit. Burning down someone’s lab before they’ve been properly vanquished, on the other hand, is rude.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Let my roots grow strong and my skin grow thick, that I might stand fast against all who would destroy me.”

336. “Let my roots grow strong and my skin grow thick, that I might stand fast against all who would destroy me.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Everything did, if left long enough to its own devices. Futures, pasts, it didn’t matter. Everything fell apart.”

337. “Everything did, if left long enough to its own devices. Futures, pasts, it didn’t matter. Everything fell apart.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Had she been able to articulate how she felt about her home life, had she been able to tell an adult, Jillian might have been surprised by the way things could change. But ah, if she had done that, she and her sister would never have become the bundle of resentments and contradictions necessary to summon a door to the Moors. Every choice feeds every choice that comes after, whether we want those choices or no.”

338. “Had she been able to articulate how she felt about her home life, had she been able to tell an adult, Jillian might have been surprised by the way things could change. But ah, if she had done that, she and her sister would never have become the bundle of resentments and contradictions necessary to summon a door to the Moors. Every choice feeds every choice that comes after, whether we want those choices or no.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Lying to you would be a mistreatment of what that love means.”

339. “Lying to you would be a mistreatment of what that love means.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “I walk with my hands in my pockets and the streetlights casting halogen halos though the fog, and I can’t help thinking this is probably what Heaven will be like, warm air and cloudy skies and the feeling of absolute contentment that only comes from coffee and pie and knowing your place in the world.”

340. “I walk with my hands in my pockets and the streetlights casting halogen halos though the fog, and I can’t help thinking this is probably what Heaven will be like, warm air and cloudy skies and the feeling of absolute contentment that only comes from coffee and pie and knowing your place in the world.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Going back” had two distinct meanings at the school, depending on how it was said. It was the best thing in the world. It was also the worst thing that could happen to anybody. It was returning to a place that understood you so well that it had reached across realities to find you, claiming you as its own and only; it was being sent to a family that wanted to love you, wanted to keep you safe and sound, but didn’t know you well enough to do anything but hurt you.”

341. “Going back” had two distinct meanings at the school, depending on how it was said. It was the best thing in the world. It was also the worst thing that could happen to anybody. It was returning to a place that understood you so well that it had reached across realities to find you, claiming you as its own and only; it was being sent to a family that wanted to love you, wanted to keep you safe and sound, but didn’t know you well enough to do anything but hurt you.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Children of Maeve reproducing with children of Titania wasn’t like apples mixing with oranges – it was more like apples mixing with cheese graters, or rainbows with hardware stores.”

342. “Children of Maeve reproducing with children of Titania wasn’t like apples mixing with oranges – it was more like apples mixing with cheese graters, or rainbows with hardware stores.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Hope means you keep on holding to things that won’t ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there’s nothing left.”

343. “Hope means you keep on holding to things that won’t ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there’s nothing left.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

344. “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.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Not that we’d had much opportunity for casual conversation – all our conversations so far had been focused on killing each other, killing something else, or trying not to get ourselves or anybody else killed.”

345. “Not that we’d had much opportunity for casual conversation – all our conversations so far had been focused on killing each other, killing something else, or trying not to get ourselves or anybody else killed.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “There are worlds built on rainbows and worlds built on rain. There are worlds of pure mathematics, where every number chimes like crystal as it rolls into reality. There are worlds of light and worlds of darkness, worlds of rhyme and worlds of reason, and worlds where the only thing that matters is the goodness in a hero’s heart.”

346. “There are worlds built on rainbows and worlds built on rain. There are worlds of pure mathematics, where every number chimes like crystal as it rolls into reality. There are worlds of light and worlds of darkness, worlds of rhyme and worlds of reason, and worlds where the only thing that matters is the goodness in a hero’s heart.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Some days it’s not worth crawling out of the shallow woodland grave, I swear. “Be.”

347. “Some days it’s not worth crawling out of the shallow woodland grave, I swear. “Be.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Are you always this fond of stating the obvious, or am I just the lucky recipient of your sarcasm?” “Bit of both,” said Basil. “Right.”

348. “Are you always this fond of stating the obvious, or am I just the lucky recipient of your sarcasm?” “Bit of both,” said Basil. “Right.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “They thought they had snicker-snatched a little girl – fairies love taking little girls, it’s like an addiction with them – and when they found out they had a little boy who just looked like a little girl on the outside, uh-oh, donesies. They threw him right back.”

349. “They thought they had snicker-snatched a little girl – fairies love taking little girls, it’s like an addiction with them – and when they found out they had a little boy who just looked like a little girl on the outside, uh-oh, donesies. They threw him right back.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “We’re good,” said Rose, sounding faintly disgusted. “Get into the digestive tract of the hybrid dead woman. Everything’s fine.”

350. “We’re good,” said Rose, sounding faintly disgusted. “Get into the digestive tract of the hybrid dead woman. Everything’s fine.”

— Seanan McGuire

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