Seanan McGuire Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A man who has lived his entire life in a cave does not mourn the sun until he sees it, and once he has, he can never go back underground Down Among the Sticks and Bones

2. Every choice feeds every choice that comes after, whether we want those choices or no Down Among the Sticks and Bones

3. Having half of everything she wanted denied to her for so long had left her vulnerable to them; they were the forbidden fruit, and like all forbidden things, even the promise of them was delicious Down Among the Sticks and Bones

4. I stared at her. "But she drugged us.""That is no longer news, dumbass. Are you going to ask why she drugged you?""Allright," I said, narrowing my eyes. "Why?""Because, dear October, you're the most passively suicidal person I've ever met, and that's saying something. You'll never open your wrists, but you'll run headfirst into hell. You'll have good reasons. You'll have great reasons, even. And a part of you will be praying that you won't come out again. An Artificial Night

5. Then I stay beside you for as long as we have." He kept stroking my hair. Cats like to be petted. Cait Sidhe like to pet. "October, I meant it when I told you I was not leaving you. I will never leave you while both of us are living. You were not quite this human when I met you, and you were far less human when I finally allowed myself to love you. But the essential core of your being has remained the same no matter what the balance of your blood.""How is it that you always know the exact right stupid romance novel thing to say?" I asked, leaning up to kiss him.He smiled against my lips. When I pulled back, he said. "I was a student of Shakespeare before the romance novel was even dreamt. Be glad I do not leave you horrible poetry on your pillow, wrapped securely around the bodies of dead rats. Chimes at Midnight

6. You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me. An Artificial Night

7. Hope hurts. That's what you need to learn, and fast, if you don't want it to cut you open from the inside out. Hope is bad. Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left Every Heart a Doorway

8. Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left. Every Heart a Doorway

9. Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken Every Heart a Doorway

10. There were realities the human mind was never meant to withstand, pressures it was never meant to survive. Knowledge is like the sea. Go too deep, and the crushing weight of it could kill you. Laughter at the Academy

11. Time resumed. Time had a way of doing that. Every Heart a Doorway