Seanan McGuire Quotes

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You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn't exactly help me stay sane, I said. Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason, said Becks. That ship has sailed.

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I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

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I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

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You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

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Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain.

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I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I'd dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I'd just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked.

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When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.

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Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.

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And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

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Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us? asked Becks. Is it a union requirement or something?

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Well, that's that, then. We're all going to die. Charming.

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If there's a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is. I shrugged, still watching the sky.... I just want to know that he's there, so that I can die knowing there's going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.

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They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost...

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I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

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Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

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The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

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Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.

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