“I wouldn’t,” said the Luidaeg. “Love is love. It’s rarer in Faerie than it used to be—rarer than it should be, if you ask me. If you can find it, you should cling to it, and never let anything interfere. Besides, he has a nice ass.” Her lips quirked in a weirdly mischievous smile. “I mean, damn. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to wear leather pants. He’s one of them. He’s a clear and present danger when he puts those things on. Or takes them off.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“Love is love. It’s rarer in Faerie than it used to be—rarer than it should be, if you ask me. If you can find it, you should cling to it, and never let anything interfere. Besides, he has a nice ass.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“I don’t like parties. Someone always tries to assassinate someone I actually like, and there are never enough of those little stuffed mushroom caps.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“Love you can spend like currency isn't really love.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“I dislike the dead returning to life," said Etienne, his shoulders slumping again. "It's untidy and inappropriate.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“You’ll always come back to warn him, no matter how much danger it could put you in, no matter what it costs you, because he cared for you when you thought you were nothing. You were never nothing. That didn’t matter. Perception is everything in this world”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“You know, just once, I’d like my life to be all about spending Sunday afternoon in my pajamas,”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“There is no fighting in the Library. Anyone who starts a fight or responds to a challenge will be thrown out. You may think you can take me. You're probably right. But none of you can take the Library.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“Sometimes I think it must have been nice to be alive in the days where everyone knew that Faerie existed. Sure, bands of angry humans sometimes tried to kill us with iron and fire, but nobody questioned where we wanted to celebrate the seasons.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“At least my headache was almost gone. I always deal better with emergencies when I’m not actively in pain.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“Running through an unfamiliar forest filled with thorns is half an exercise in masochism, and half an obstacle course from the deepest reaches of Hell.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“Okay, wow. Way to slide in a ‘safe driving’ PSA when I’m about to risk my life doing stupid shit.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“This was the sort of situation that called for a certain amount of terror.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“Lying to you would be a mistreatment of what that love means.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“This is my fault. I know it's my fault. I should never have let you get so comfortable. You started thinking of me as harmless. I'm safe. I'm the monster at the end of the book, the one that you run to when the bigger monsters start threatening to eat you, but that's not right, Toby, that's not right, you forget yourself. You forget me. I am the scariest thing that has ever gone bump in the night. I am what you knew, at the bottom of your un-formed child's heart, was lurking in the back of your closet. And what I'm telling you, right here and right now, is that you need to leave, because I'm afraid of what will happen if you don't."
I stared at her, fighting the urge to take a step backwards. Something told me that retreating would mean showing weakness, and showing weakness would be a mistake. "I'm not scared of you. If you were going to kill me, you'd have done it a long time ago, and it wouldn't have been over a yes or no question."
"Toby." She said my name gently, and with a deep centuries-long sorrow. "Who the fuck said I needed you to be afraid of me?" She took another step forward dropping her voice to a whisper: "Run.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
“My headache, almost gone before, had blossomed anew like some perverse flower, spreading to fill my entire skull. I groaned as I forced myself to turn toward the bed, squinting against the candlelight.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from The Winter Long
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“All words have power, of course, but names are the most potent of all, which is why the gods had so many.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from The Gospel of Loki
“Don’t be scared,” said a voice behind me.
Those must certainly fall into the category of Famous Last Words, the sort that are the last thing you hear before your death. (Along with “it isn’t loaded” and “he only wants to play.”) Of course I was terrible scared.”
― Kerstin Gier, quote from Emerald Green
“Librarians seemed to have a sixth sense for noticing when students were doing things they weren't supposed to.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from The Rithmatist
“I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane plan?"
"Well... no."
"And why do you think that is?"
I am at loss. "Because... ah, because—"
She chuckles again. "Because sane plans never work girl," she says. "Only the mad ones do.”
― Sabaa Tahir, quote from A Torch Against the Night
“While spinning daily on its own axis, the earth also orbits the sun (again in an anti-clockwise direction) on a path which is slightly elliptical rather than completely circular. It pursues this orbit at truly breakneck speed, travelling as far along it in an hour – 66,600 miles – as the average motorist will drive in six years. To bring the calculations down in scale, this means that we are hurtling through space much faster than any bullet, at the rate of 18.5 miles every second. In the time that it has taken you to read this paragraph, we have voyaged about 550 miles farther along earth’s path around the sun.3”
― Graham Hancock, quote from Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
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