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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Painters and sculptors and designers, they take raw materials and turn them into art. Dancers turn themselves into art. We are poetry in motion when we do our jobs right, and we can stop your heart with the point of a toe or the angle of a limb.”

351. “Painters and sculptors and designers, they take raw materials and turn them into art. Dancers turn themselves into art. We are poetry in motion when we do our jobs right, and we can stop your heart with the point of a toe or the angle of a limb.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “I was here for revenge. And revenge did not need a nap.”

352. “I was here for revenge. And revenge did not need a nap.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “What just happened?” asked Jeff. “Sloane just yelled at the story until it went away,” I said blankly.”

353. “What just happened?” asked Jeff. “Sloane just yelled at the story until it went away,” I said blankly.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “I am what I am, and there’s much about me that won’t be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I’m sorry for that. I’d trade a great deal to share an afternoon in the hay with you, dust in the air and sweat on our skins and neither of us caring. But I’m afraid the experience would drive me mad. I am a creature of sterile environments. It’s too late for me to change.”

354. “I am what I am, and there’s much about me that won’t be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I’m sorry for that. I’d trade a great deal to share an afternoon in the hay with you, dust in the air and sweat on our skins and neither of us caring. But I’m afraid the experience would drive me mad. I am a creature of sterile environments. It’s too late for me to change.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “One day you will have to tell me where you acquired this aversion to walking on solid ground,” said Dominic. “Try having a baby sister whose idea of a good time involves pit traps and land mines,” I advised.”

355. “One day you will have to tell me where you acquired this aversion to walking on solid ground,” said Dominic. “Try having a baby sister whose idea of a good time involves pit traps and land mines,” I advised.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “She said she’d been in relationships with way bigger problems than one of us being a transitory manifestation of impending doom. Like this one girl who liked her computer more than she liked her girlfriend, and another one who smoked.”

356. “She said she’d been in relationships with way bigger problems than one of us being a transitory manifestation of impending doom. Like this one girl who liked her computer more than she liked her girlfriend, and another one who smoked.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “People don’t believe things that are too perfect.”

357. “People don’t believe things that are too perfect.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Just believe me when I say you can’t trust anything you read on the Internet until you confirm it.”

358. “Just believe me when I say you can’t trust anything you read on the Internet until you confirm it.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Try to be careful, okay? You’re the only niece I’m actually speaking to these days. I’m not in the mood to see you dead.”

359. “Try to be careful, okay? You’re the only niece I’m actually speaking to these days. I’m not in the mood to see you dead.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens.”

360. “Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “There is a choice here, hanging like smoke in the autumn air. She can cry for the friends she doesn’t have, mourn for the games she isn’t playing, or she can let them go. She can be the kind of girl who doesn’t need anyone else to keep her happy, the kind of girl who smiles at adults and keeps her own company. She can be content.”

361. “There is a choice here, hanging like smoke in the autumn air. She can cry for the friends she doesn’t have, mourn for the games she isn’t playing, or she can let them go. She can be the kind of girl who doesn’t need anyone else to keep her happy, the kind of girl who smiles at adults and keeps her own company. She can be content.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

362. “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

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Children are capable of grasping complex ideas long before most people give them credit for, wrapping them in a soothing layer of nonsense and illogical logic.”

363. “Children are capable of grasping complex ideas long before most people give them credit for, wrapping them in a soothing layer of nonsense and illogical logic.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Anyone who says the past was perfect is a liar and wasn’t there. Everything that thinks can aspire, and everything that aspires wants something better than what they’ve left behind them.”

364. “Anyone who says the past was perfect is a liar and wasn’t there. Everything that thinks can aspire, and everything that aspires wants something better than what they’ve left behind them.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “The look she leveled on him was pure aunt.”

365. “The look she leveled on him was pure aunt.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Because ‘boys will be boys’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Lundy. “They’re too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked; when they disappear from the home, parents send search parties to dredge them out of swamps and drag them away from frog ponds. It’s not innate. It’s learned. But it protects them from the doors, keeps them safe at home. Call it irony, if you like, but we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”

366. “Because ‘boys will be boys’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Lundy. “They’re too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked; when they disappear from the home, parents send search parties to dredge them out of swamps and drag them away from frog ponds. It’s not innate. It’s learned. But it protects them from the doors, keeps them safe at home. Call it irony, if you like, but we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “What was the point of hide-and-seek if you weren’t allowed to dig pit traps or attack your opponents from behind?”

367. “What was the point of hide-and-seek if you weren’t allowed to dig pit traps or attack your opponents from behind?”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Weapons, at least, were predictable; weapons made sense. A sword was just a knife with delusions of grandeur. A trident was a really big fork...”

368. “Weapons, at least, were predictable; weapons made sense. A sword was just a knife with delusions of grandeur. A trident was a really big fork...”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Every choice feeds every choice that comes after, whether we want those choices or no.”

369. “Every choice feeds every choice that comes after, whether we want those choices or no.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “We don’t teach you how to dwell. We also don’t teach you how to forget. We teach you how to move on.”

370. “We don’t teach you how to dwell. We also don’t teach you how to forget. We teach you how to move on.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “He likes cats. They have their own agenda, and he respects that.”

371. “He likes cats. They have their own agenda, and he respects that.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “The trouble with denying children the freedom to be themselves – with forcing them into an idea of what they should be, not allowing them to choose their own paths – is that all too often, the one drawing the design knows nothing of the desires of their model.”

372. “The trouble with denying children the freedom to be themselves – with forcing them into an idea of what they should be, not allowing them to choose their own paths – is that all too often, the one drawing the design knows nothing of the desires of their model.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Beauty was all the brighter against a background of briars.”

373. “Beauty was all the brighter against a background of briars.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Everyone who wound up at Eleanor West’s School – everyone who found a doorway – understood what it was to spend a lifetime waiting for something that other people wouldn’t necessarily understand. Not because they were better than other people and not because they were worse, but because they had a need trapped somewhere in their bones, gnawing constantly, trying to get out.”

374. “Everyone who wound up at Eleanor West’s School – everyone who found a doorway – understood what it was to spend a lifetime waiting for something that other people wouldn’t necessarily understand. Not because they were better than other people and not because they were worse, but because they had a need trapped somewhere in their bones, gnawing constantly, trying to get out.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “I dislike the dead returning to life,” said Etienne, his shoulders slumping again. “It’s untidy and inappropriate.”

375. “I dislike the dead returning to life,” said Etienne, his shoulders slumping again. “It’s untidy and inappropriate.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “I only looked when I was sure he couldn’t see me. Some games are too dangerous to play.”

376. “I only looked when I was sure he couldn’t see me. Some games are too dangerous to play.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “When all else fails, put on a fresh coat of lip gloss and pretend you have no idea what that horrible thing that just went running down Main Street was. A surprisingly large number of people will believe you.”

377. “When all else fails, put on a fresh coat of lip gloss and pretend you have no idea what that horrible thing that just went running down Main Street was. A surprisingly large number of people will believe you.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “They’re all the ghostroads, and they’ve all got one thing in common: they’re all physical evidence of the scars mankind leaves on the world.”

378. “They’re all the ghostroads, and they’ve all got one thing in common: they’re all physical evidence of the scars mankind leaves on the world.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “In the way of bookish children, she carried her books into trees and along the banks of chuckling creeks, weaving her way along their slippery shores with the sort of grace that belongs only to bibliophiles protecting their treasures.”

379. “In the way of bookish children, she carried her books into trees and along the banks of chuckling creeks, weaving her way along their slippery shores with the sort of grace that belongs only to bibliophiles protecting their treasures.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “When I’m a woman, I eat Pop-Tarts and vindaloo. When I’m a big black bird, I eat eyeballs and spleens. It’s all part of the glorious contradiction that is me.”

380. “When I’m a woman, I eat Pop-Tarts and vindaloo. When I’m a big black bird, I eat eyeballs and spleens. It’s all part of the glorious contradiction that is me.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Quentin didn’t bother with the preliminaries. He grabbed a paper cup and trotted over to me, holding it at arm’s length. “Here,” he said. “Coffee.“”And thus am I reminded why I allow you to live.”

381. “Quentin didn’t bother with the preliminaries. He grabbed a paper cup and trotted over to me, holding it at arm’s length. “Here,” he said. “Coffee.“”And thus am I reminded why I allow you to live.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Death was precious. That didn’t change the fact that life was limited.”

382. “Death was precious. That didn’t change the fact that life was limited.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Eleanor West spent her days giving them what she had never had, and hoped that someday, it would be enough to pay her passage back to the place where she belonged.”

383. “Eleanor West spent her days giving them what she had never had, and hoped that someday, it would be enough to pay her passage back to the place where she belonged.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “I’m not sorry,” said Quentin. “One of them tried to take my throat away from me. With its teeth. I’m not you. I need my throat.”

384. “I’m not sorry,” said Quentin. “One of them tried to take my throat away from me. With its teeth. I’m not you. I need my throat.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “True power wasn’t convincing a cowardly lot to be afraid of something that people were already afraid of; it was giving them a complex that made them run screaming when a fluffy kitten came bounding into the room.”

385. “True power wasn’t convincing a cowardly lot to be afraid of something that people were already afraid of; it was giving them a complex that made them run screaming when a fluffy kitten came bounding into the room.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favourite thing, of all the things.”

386. “Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favourite thing, of all the things.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “The habit of narration, of crafting something miraculous out of the commonplace, was hard to break... Narrate the impossible things, turn them into a story, and they could be controlled...”

387. “The habit of narration, of crafting something miraculous out of the commonplace, was hard to break... Narrate the impossible things, turn them into a story, and they could be controlled...”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Dr. Reynard – not the name that he was born with, but then, how many people can be truly defined by their original names in both childhood and maturity? A truly sensible culture would grant a person a new name with every decade of their life, until age and perspective allowed them to choose the name that would grace their tombstone – closed his door.”

388. “Dr. Reynard – not the name that he was born with, but then, how many people can be truly defined by their original names in both childhood and maturity? A truly sensible culture would grant a person a new name with every decade of their life, until age and perspective allowed them to choose the name that would grace their tombstone – closed his door.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “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.”

389. “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

Seanan McGuire Quote: “I’ve always found profanity to be a lot like bacon,” said Ciara. “It works wonders on the flavor of your speech, but it lacks impact when used excessively.”

390. “I’ve always found profanity to be a lot like bacon,” said Ciara. “It works wonders on the flavor of your speech, but it lacks impact when used excessively.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “I didn’t want to go. I’m not a hero; I never have been. I just do what has to be done.”

391. “I didn’t want to go. I’m not a hero; I never have been. I just do what has to be done.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Just so you know, I had already decided I was adopting you and taking you home to meet the rest of the family. I really, really hope you wanted siblings, because you now have two sisters, a brother, a sister-in-law, a brother-in-law, and assorted cousins, aunts, uncles, and other such familial detritus.” James looked back to me, blinking in slow bewilderment. “Ah,” he said finally. “I suppose I’ll have a busy Christmas.”

392. “Just so you know, I had already decided I was adopting you and taking you home to meet the rest of the family. I really, really hope you wanted siblings, because you now have two sisters, a brother, a sister-in-law, a brother-in-law, and assorted cousins, aunts, uncles, and other such familial detritus.” James looked back to me, blinking in slow bewilderment. “Ah,” he said finally. “I suppose I’ll have a busy Christmas.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “I could give you children,” said Jack, sounding faintly affronted. “You’d have to tell me how many heads you wanted them to have, and what species you’d like them to be, but what’s the point of having all these graveyards if I can’t give you children when you ask for them?”

393. “I could give you children,” said Jack, sounding faintly affronted. “You’d have to tell me how many heads you wanted them to have, and what species you’d like them to be, but what’s the point of having all these graveyards if I can’t give you children when you ask for them?”

— Seanan McGuire

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

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

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “She is his living mausoleum.”

395. “She is his living mausoleum.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “You’d think the predators of the world would eventually learn that it’s not a good idea to charge the sort of person who brings throwing knives to a dance club.”

396. “You’d think the predators of the world would eventually learn that it’s not a good idea to charge the sort of person who brings throwing knives to a dance club.”

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Seanan McGuire Quote: “Sadly, as I had come to learn, sometimes being a pincushion is my purpose in life.”

397. “Sadly, as I had come to learn, sometimes being a pincushion is my purpose in life.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Old enough to know what I’m losing in the process of being found.”

398. “Old enough to know what I’m losing in the process of being found.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Hummingbird girl, running on caffeine and borrowed energy. He’s seen what happens when that energy runs out. He never wants to see it again.”

399. “Hummingbird girl, running on caffeine and borrowed energy. He’s seen what happens when that energy runs out. He never wants to see it again.”

— Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire Quote: “Love is so rarely enough. The poets told a lot of lies.”

400. “Love is so rarely enough. The poets told a lot of lies.”

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