“Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“What's the point of holding on if I can't save the ones that I can't afford to lose?”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“In the end there's never a sanctuary. You run until there's nowhere left to run to, and then you fight, and then you die, and then it's over. That's how the world works, and if there's any way to change that, I hope someone's eventually planning to let me know.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“As often as men slam me into things, you’d think I’d get laid more.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“Better cranky and alive than cheerful and dead.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“I'm sorry to go, but its alright. Rivers dry up; tides ebb; the sea goes on.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“We are handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“Faerie may not always have been the kindest place to live, but it was still my home. I owed it to Gillian, To May, to Dare, and Tybalt and January, and all the others not to say that my life had been a mistake. Not when it had been so intertwined with theirs.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“You can live your life in "should" and never change anything. What's done is done. We buried our dead. I went home. Manuel went to Shadowed Hills to hate me in peace.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“Toby, please stop punching Etienne in the head. It's not helping.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“In the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive me what I’m about to do.”
“Forgive you wha—”
My sentence was cut off as he clamped his mouth over mine, kissing me deeply.
...
“Ready to make a scene?”
He raised an eyebrow. “Do I have a choice?”
“Not really. To quote something someone said to me recently, in the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive what I’m about to do.” I drew back my hand and slapped him across the face. The smack of flesh striking flesh echoed through the hall. Conversations stopped as people whipped around to stare at us. Raising my voice to something just below a shout, I snarled, “You asshole!”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“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, quote from Late Eclipses
“Raysel, you told me yourself that your father wasn't my liege anymore. I don't have to obey his wishes, spoken or unspoken, and so I can finally say this: go drown yourself, you self-righteous little bitch.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“There's no more damage to be done," she said, in a faint, almost thoughtful voice. "No more damage, no salvation. One more of Faerie's glorious monsters lost."
"If you'd left us alone--" I began.
"You'd have sent some hero after me, given time enough. I killed, I die. At least I killed like a monster kills, instead of with iron, and dying by inches. That's Titania's way, the Queen who stands in the darkness and screams about her light.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“She did the best with what she had, and that's all any of us can do. We're handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“Did I ever tell you what came between your mother's heart and mine?"
"I don't think this is the time--"
"Your friend would disagree," she said, almost playfully, her attention darting to Tybalt. Focusing in me again, she said, "He all but burns with what he doesn't say to you, and my time is mine to spend.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“Poison doesn't break Oberon's law unless somebody dies. There are circles where putting your enemies to sleep for a thousand years is perfectly normal.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“if people wanted to talk to me from a million miles away, that was their problem, not mine.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“Where do they come from?" In those days, her every word was gospel truth, and I would have asked anything to keep her talking to me.
"Tears. The first time Oberon left Maeve for her pretty sister, she didn't understand, and she nearly died of sorrow.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“It smells like mulberries."
"Sometimes it smells like bananas or artichokes.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“You can live your life in "should" and never change anything.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
“I’m just concerned.” “Don’t be. It’s not like my chronic migraine is going to kill us.” “Right.” She”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Late Eclipses
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“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― Fernando Pessoa, quote from Il libro dell'inquietudine di Bernardo Soares
“Dot hurled her pizza at her, smacking Hester in the cheek. “Do you know how unfair that is, you contemptuous git! You made me gain weight in order to stay in the coven and now you’re making fun of me for it? Are you that insecure that you needed me to be fat to feel okay about yourself? Well, you picked the wrong piggy tail to pull, honey. I love myself no matter what I look like, so nothing you say to me will ever make me feel ugly again. Because unlike you, Hester, I’ll never be ugly inside.”
― Soman Chainani, quote from The Last Ever After
“LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! So I sit here, with my pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't see myself shaking in my britches with fright, or hear myself whining and praying: Beloved Christ, let me live a little longer at any price! If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, have mercy, Almighty God, and let me still clutch greedily to my yellow heart this sweet treasure, this jewel beyond price, the dirty, stinking bit of withered old flesh which is my beautiful little life! (He laughs with a sneering, vindictive self-loathing, staring inward at himself with contempt and hatred. Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.) You think you'll make me admit that to myself?”
― Eugene O'Neill, quote from The Iceman Cometh
“The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.”
― René Descartes, quote from Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
“To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment
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