Quotes By Author: Seanan McGuire

“Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favourite thing, of all the things.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”