Seanan McGuire Quotes

Sometimes 'fair' is bigger than just you," said the Archivist.…"Sometimes 'fair' has to think about what's best for everyone.

If your friends would stop wanting you around because you’re not exactly like them, they’re not very good friends.

Of course this was all real. She had had her share of wild and beautiful dreams, but never anything like this. And if she hadn’t dreamed it, it had to be real, and if it was real, of course they were still there. Real places didn’t go away just because you’d had a nap.

Then Angela turned on Kade, and said, “I meant what I said. It’s sick, how you pretend like you’re something you’re not.”
“I was about to say the same thing to you,” said Christopher. “I mean, you always did a pretty good job of pretending to be a decent human being. You had me fooled.”

You know, sometimes I almost forget how creepy you are, and then you go and say something like that.

New things are the best kind of magic there is.

Quests were a lot like dogs, Cora thought. They were much more attractive when seen from a distance, and not barking in the middle of the night or pooping all over the house. She had been there for every terrible, wearying, bone-breaking moment of this quest, and it held no magic for her. She knew it too well.

Heroism is addictive. Maybe that's why it sounds so much like 'heroin.'

"Only one way to find out," said Kade, and started walking.
"Why do people always say that?" muttered Cora, trailing along at the rear of the group. There's always more than one way to find something out. People only say there's only one way when they want an excuse to do something incredibly stupid without getting called on it. There are lots of ways to find out, and some of them even involve not pissing off a man who goes by 'the Lord of the Dead.'"
"Yeah, but they wouldn't be as much fun, now would they?"

says, and I find I agree, You have to break rules if you want to break free.

This wasn’t the first time Cora had met people who thought their ideas about how the world should be were the only right ones.

Hope is a vicious beast. It sinks in its claws and it doesn’t let go.

The Queen of Cakes pursed her lips. “You must be from Sumi’s world,” she said primly. “You’re just as obnoxious as she was. She’s quiet now. How did you make her that way?”
“Well, she died, so that was a large part of it,” said Kade.
“Dead people normally stay in their graves, out of the way of the rest of us.”

“My name is Lord of the Forest,” said the stag.
Regan nodded. Every stag she’d ever met had been named Lord of the Forest, even when there was another stag only a few feet away. Deer didn’t understand irony.

Paperwork is a magic in and of itself. It makes spouses out of strangers, makes homes out of houses…and mades students out of runaways.