“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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“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”
― J.D. Salinger, quote from Franny and Zooey
“Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.”
― Bryce Courtenay, quote from The Power of One
“Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, quote from The Wise Man's Fear
“Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan.
"It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.”
― Chinua Achebe, quote from Things Fall Apart
“Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Son of Neptune
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