Top 15 Seanan McGuire Quotes

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

, , and and , and , we're calling your names.

“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.

The nameless girl stared at Cora. “You’re insane.”
“Probably,” said Cora placidly. “Sticks and stones, as the sages say; sticks and stones. I know what I am and I’m happy this way, and saying something true shouldn’t be an insult, ever, because that’s not how words want to work.”

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

"If they're being locked, they're being locked. We don't have a key."
"Sometimes, you don't need a key," said Sumi. Her smile verged on feral. "Sometimes a crowbar is good enough."

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

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.

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

There would be time to grab something from the dining hall before she had to go to English class. The thought of having to analyze the poetry of Emily Dickinson without calories was enough to make her want to cry. Why adults constantly wanted to know what centuries-old poems meant was beyond her. Shouldn’t someone have found the right answer by now? Or at least an answer good enough to accept?

Destiny wasn’t real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in a certain way, and refuse to let it change.

"I don't believe in destiny."
"Destiny believes in you." The fawn took a breath. "I really am sorry we had to hit you."
"I'm sorry too," said Regan.
"You understand this was for your own good."
"I understand you think this was for my own good."

Back where I come from, mothers and fathers live together most of the time. Unless they're divorced."
"What's 'divorced' mean?"
"It means they were married and now they're not anymore, so their kids get double Christmas.

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

“Jack?” Kade took a cautious step forward. “Are you…?”
“There are only a certain number of possible ways to end that question, and the answer to all of them is ‘no,’” said Jack.