Seanan McGuire - People Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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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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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The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

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This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world—more, we owe ourselves—the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

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Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

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There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

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We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.

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