“(Australia. The only continent designed with a difficulty rating of “ha ha fuck you no.”)”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“ALL GLORY TO THE SCIENCE RULES OF SCIENCE!”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Being smart isn't good enough. You need to be educated, and you need to be open-minded, and you need to remember that what you don't know can most definitely hurt you.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Let's go commit senseless acts of science.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind, rules never matter at all.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Lindworms are a sign of a healthy ecosystem,” I said, straightening. “Now let’s get out of here before the healthy ecosystem eats us.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“If you find something you truly love, stick with it. There's nothing else in this world that will make you half as happy. There's nothing else that will make you half as miserable, either, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“I told them you almost certainly were not a serial killer, and that they were being horribly sexist by assuming that of the two of us, only you were capable of committing murder. That may have been a tactical error—it got me rather a lot more questioning that I hadn’t exactly been planning on.” “Well, yes. It’s usually unwise to tell the police you could be a serial killer if you really, really wanted to.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Try your best. That's always been good enough for the people who love you.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It's much easier to be brave when you don't believe that the monster under your bed is real.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“If you didn’t think I knew what I know, why are you telling me what you think I didn’t know but might have come here looking to find out?” Shelby paused. “I’m sorry. I’m not sure even I understand what I just said.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Hell hath no fury like a centuries-old organisation of zealots scorned.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Love doesn't care what you want. Love doesn't care if it's convenient. Love pursues its own agenda, and there's no bullet in the world that can take it down. More's the pity.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived with monsters, and the monsters swore that they would never hurt him, because even monsters dream of living happily ever after.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Alex would make a terrible Martian,” said Sarah. “He doesn’t have a giant laser and he’s not planning an Earth-shattering kaboom.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Yes, that’s a brilliant idea. Choose the career path most likely to lead to an early, painful death, and you’re sure to find job satisfaction.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Grandma married him because he was the first man she’d ever met who wasn’t affected by her telepathy. This is the sort of thing that Internet dating sites never have a field for.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“It was easier than I expected, maybe because I was too angry and too afraid to really pay attention to what I was doing. Things are always easy when you refuse to let yourself remember how dangerous they are.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“At least that would be a new disgusting swamp experience, instead of a disgusting swamp experience I'd already had several times that day.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“Playing fair is for people who don’t mind playing to lose.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“I’m going to kill you.” “You look fine.” “I’m quite serious. I’m going to murder you. I’m going to murder you to death. And then, after I’ve finished doing that, I’m going to kill you again, just to be sure you got the point.” “Shelby, honestly, you look fine.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Half-Off Ragnarok
“WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?”
― Anita Shreve, quote from The Weight of Water
“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
The love I bear thee, finding words enough,
And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,
Between our faces, to cast light on each? -
I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach
My hand to hold my spirits so far off
From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof
In words, of love hid in me out of reach.
Nay, let the silence of my womanhood
Commend my woman-love to thy belief, -
Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed,
And rend the garment of my life, in brief,
By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,
Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, quote from Sonnets from the Portuguese
“I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me.
Logan to Madeline”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Because You're Mine
“Love you more than life itself, more than the sun and the air.
You own my soul, Ella May.
Micha”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Forever of Ella and Micha
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