Seanan McGuire Quotes

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.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.”

–Enid Healy

Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.

Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.

The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.

Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!"

Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.