01c. 2008 ADI didn't look back. Sometimes, not looking back is the only mercy the world has left to show.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
02c. 2008 ADHe was still so very young. Faeries—true faeries, not their changeling throwaways—live forever, and when you have an eternity of adulthood ahead of you, you linger over childhood. You tend it and keep it close to your heart, because once it ends, it’s over. Quentin was barely fifteen. He’d never seen the Great Hunt that came down every twenty-one years, or been present for the crowning of a King or Queen of Cats, or announced his maturity before the throne of High King Aethlin. He was a child, and he should have had decades left to play; a century of games and joy and edging cautiously toward adulthood.But he didn’t. I could see his childhood dying in his eyes as he looked at me, silently begging me to answer for him.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
03c. 2008 ADMy lord was never sane, but he was my love, once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that the once upon a times go when they die.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
04c. 2008 ADQuentin quieted and watched her for a moment, hungrily, like he was trying to memorize every detail. Maybe he was. Forever is a long time. You have to burn the edges of memory onto your heart, or they can fade, and sometimes the second loss is worse than the first one.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
05c. 2008 ADI didn't even feel my face hitting the pond. Everything was darkness, glorious darkness and the final, perfect absence of pain. It was done, all of it, the running and the fighting, and the pain. After everything that I'd gone through, it was finally over, and this time, the water would carry me home.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
06c. 2008 ADFaeries are real. Magic is real. My tendency to greet dangerous situations by plunging in headfirst and seeing how long it takes to get myself covered head to toe in blood is also real.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
07c. 2008 ADSome adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
08c. 2008 ADI wondered how much time they'd spent practicing entrances like this one, smoothing away their rough edges and rendering them brief but potent expressions of effortless grace. I decided to stop thinking about it, and just be grateful that there was no circumstance, however, unlikely, that could put me in their place.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
09c. 2008 ADIf you wish to find your answers, you’ll need to begin thinking, not merely reacting.-- LilySeanan McGuire / quote ↗
11c. 2008 ADIf 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 ↗
12c. 2008 ADThe 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 ↗
13c. 2008 ADHe said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
14c. 2008 ADI would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
15c. 2008 ADYou want to go back, and so you hold on to the habits you learned while you were traveling, because it's better than admitting the journey's over.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
16c. 2008 ADI watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
18c. 2008 ADFor us, places we went were home. We didn't care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn't have to pretend to be something we weren't. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
19c. 2008 ADDoors opened everywhere. Maybe one day, the children of this world who had gone to that world to save themselves would see a door that didn't fit right with the walls around it, something with a doorknob made of a moon, or a knocker that winked. Maybe they could still go home,Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
20c. 2008 ADThe Luidaeg sighed and put her arms around me, pulling me close. "Come here," she said. "I need to hold someone, and you need to be held. It's a fair trade. Just for a little while, and then we can go on being what we are." I thought about objecting, but dismissed the idea and nestled against her, enjoying the feeling of security given by knowing someone bigger and stronger than I was would stop anything from hurting me. That's all childhood is, after all: strong arms to hold back the dark, a story to keep the shadows dancing, and a candle to mark the long journey into day. A song to keep the flights of angels at bay. How many miles to Babylon? Sorry. I don't care.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
21c. 2008 ADThen he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
22c. 2008 ADBut sometimes the pieces fall together the way they want to, and you can't change the story; all you can do is try to ride it out.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
23c. 2008 ADYou’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 worldSeanan McGuire / quote ↗
