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Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978) is an American author and filker, known for her award winning urban fantasy novels.

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“Time resumed.
Time had a way of doing that.”
“New things are the best kind of magic there is.”
“Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love.”
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“You look like the kind of girl who might know stuff about lichen.”
“Hope is a vicious beast. It sinks in its claws and it doesn’t let go.”
“Cora was very good at ignoring people who told her to do foolish things.”
“Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing, of all things.”
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“I’d banter, but I haven’t the time, and you haven’t the wit to keep up.”
““Heroism is addictive. Maybe that’s why it sounds so much like ‘heroin.’””
“We can’t make things that happened not have happened by wishing that they hadn’t.”
“Her accusations had been met with reality, and they didn’t have anyplace else to go.”
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“That’s the trouble with gods. They don’t care much how poorly they treat their toys.”
“There are moments that change everything, and once things have been changed, they do not change back.”
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“You know, sometimes I almost forget how creepy you are, and then you go and say something like that.”
“There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again.”
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“If your friends would stop wanting you around because you’re not exactly like them, they’re not very good friends.”
“This wasn’t the first time Cora had met people who thought their ideas about how the world should be were the only right ones.”
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“Paperwork is a magic in and of itself. It makes spouses out of strangers, makes homes out of houses…and mades students out of runaways.”
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“If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
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““Sometimes ‘fair’ is bigger than just you,” said the Archivist.…“Sometimes ‘fair’ has to think about what’s best for everyone.””
“The first man—the Master—raised his goblet in a mocking toast. “To the future,” he said. “It’s on its way now, whether we’re prepared or not.””
“Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree,
You have to break rules if you want to break free.”
“Destiny wasn’t real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in a certain way, and refuse to let it change.”
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“Parents lied to children when they thought it was necessary, or when they thought that it would somehow make things better. It only made sense that children should lie to parents in the same way.”
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““Jack?” Kade took a cautious step forward. “Are you…?”
“There are only a certain number of possible ways to end that question, and the answer to all of them is ‘no,’” said Jack.”

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Seanan McGuire on Hope 2 quotes

“Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing, of all things.”
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Seanan McGuire on Time

“Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love.”
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Seanan McGuire on Change

“There are moments that change everything, and once things have been changed, they do not change back.”
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Seanan McGuire on Future

“The first man—the Master—raised his goblet in a mocking toast. “To the future,” he said. “It’s on its way now, whether we’re prepared or not.””
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Seanan McGuire on Spiders

““There might be spiders,” said Jacqueline. She wrinkled her nose, less out of actual distaste and more out of the knowledge that she was supposed to find spiders distasteful. She really found them rather endearing. They are sleek and clean and elegant, and when their webs got messed up, they ripped them down and started over again. People could learn a lot from spiders.”
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About Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978) is an American author and filker, known for her award winning urban fantasy novels.