“That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“I just wasn't anticipating Goblin assassins with crossbows pushing me into a situation where the only viable exit involved riding a mermaid's wheelchair into the marina.
Sometimes I think my life is too complicated.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“Um, hello?" I raised a hand. "Not a traitor, and the Queen told us where to find you. Or do you think that we're such major badasses that we fought our way through the knowe to come and loiter at you in an imposing fashion? Because I've got to say I'm flattered.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“she can stop traffic with a smile. I can stop traffic, too. I just tend to do it by crashing my car into something.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“You know what “sorry” does? Sorry doesn’t do a damn thing.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“I was getting tired of being in an endless succession of things called "the fight of a lifetime." Just once, I'd like to have the fight of a Tuesday afternoon.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“Hopefully, anyone who saw a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a wheelchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“Never bring a weapon too big to double as a dining utensil to the table when dining with friends.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“A cat that looks bored is a cat that's getting ready to pounce.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“Little Mermaid, eat your heart out.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“Did you find anything?"
"Nothing of interest. People fleeing. Poorly trained guards unable to believe an attack would occur within a royal knowe, thus proving that they possess an insufficient grasp of historical fact.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“. . . most of the ones who come when the call goes out won't have ever fought a war before. They'll come because they think it's honorable, or because they want to be heroes. They'll show up in their pretty armor, and they'll litter the battlefield like leaves.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“Okay, I’ll be in my room if you need me. Please don’t need me. Also,”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“I picked up a denim skirt from the closet floor. Either May had been committing acts of appliqué on my clothes, or it was hers.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
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“We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being—and fair enough. But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. That would not be good. That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. That simply cannot be the proper path forward.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, quote from 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.'
He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something.”
― Siri Hustvedt, quote from The Blindfold
“Nancy grabbed Plum's hand and together they ran around the last curve and then they were leaning against the old stone wall that marked Lookout Hill. Far, far down below them, a river was trying to wriggle its way out of a steep canyon. Over to the right, thick green hills crowded close to each other to share one filmy white cloud. To the left, as far as they could see the land flowed into valleys that shaded from a pale watery green, through lime, emerald, jade, leaf, forest to a dark, dark, bluish-green, almost black. The rivers were like inky lines, the ponds like ink blots.”
― Betty MacDonald, quote from Nancy and Plum
“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.”
― Ayn Rand, quote from Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.”
― quote from The Anybodies
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