01c. 2008 ADI just feel like we’re starting to interfere on a level that’s sort of . . . extreme.” “But that’s what heroes do.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
02c. 2008 ADI just wasn’t sure it was a good idea to approach heroing the way I’d always approached detecting. Can you really shake the world until justice falls out?Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
03c. 2008 ADI've never liked being looked at like I was a hero. I always wind up letting someone down. Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes the only person who gets hurt is me.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
04c. 2008 ADAfter months - after years - of chaos and life-threatening situations and people stabbing me for no good reason, we'd somehow managed to find a moment to breathe. That didn't just deserve to be enjoyed. It deserved to be celebrated, held up as proof that the world was a good place and didn't actually need to be destroyed in order for me to have a nap.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
05c. 2008 ADWisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may have left her husband, but she isn't home yet, and this is one state that'll be damned before it lets anyone forget it.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
06c. 2008 ADIt's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
07c. 2008 ADJust thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve managed to wind up covered in blood,” I said. “It’s like a new trend. A blood-free trend.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
08c. 2008 ADYou are covered in blood," Tybalt said again, stressing the words harder this time. "It makes me tense." There was a thud as the guard hit the floor, and Tybalt returned to my side."Wow. You must be tense a lot."He sighed. "You have no idea.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
09c. 2008 ADEveryone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
10c. 2008 ADI 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 ↗
11c. 2008 ADClichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
12c. 2008 ADWhen you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
14c. 2008 ADEven when she slept, she tossed and turned and squirmed, like she was secretly a hurricane forced into a girl-body and told to exist as best she could among people who had no idea what it meant to secretly be a weather pattern.Seanan McGuire / quote ↗
15c. 2008 ADThere 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 ↗
16c. 2008 ADThe problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice HealySeanan McGuire / quote ↗
