Seanan McGuire Quotes

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

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.

I’d banter, but I haven’t the time, and you haven’t the wit to keep up.

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.

"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?"

My name’s Christopher. I was a friend of Jack’s before she went back to the Moors. I mean, not really. Jack doesn’t have friends, she has minions who haven’t figured out their place in the grand scheme of things.

We can’t make things that happened not have happened by wishing that they hadn’t.

New things are the best kind of magic there is.

Cora was very good at ignoring people who told her to do foolish things.

You look like the kind of girl who might know stuff about lichen.

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.”

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

Miss Hansard, who had been teaching for nearly twenty years, slumped against her desk and wondered when retirement had gone from a distant impossibility to something to be devoutly yearned for. They got younger every year. She was certain of that much, at least. They got younger, and harder to understand, every single year.

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