Seanan McGuire Quotes

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Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.

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You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.

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There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

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Although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

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A truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

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Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

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It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

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Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?

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There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

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It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason

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Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet..

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Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

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I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

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There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don't seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don't seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.

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Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

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We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

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He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.

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That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

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I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

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I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

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Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

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At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.

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He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.

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His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

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Shaun Mason: I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit.

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She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

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There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it's not backed up by anything but fear.

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George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

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I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, Do not actually put your hand in the alligator, while terror says, Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.

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You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

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