“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
―
Seanan McGuire,
Every Heart a Doorway
“You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“She was a story, not an epilogue.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.” ― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation
“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.” ― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones
“Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“Because ‘boys will be boys’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Lundy. “They’re too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked; when they disappear from the home, parents send search parties to dredge them out of swamps and drag them away from frog ponds. It’s not innate. It’s learned. But it protects them from the doors, keeps them safe at home. Call it irony, if you like, but we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.” ― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
“For us, places we went were home. We didn't care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn't have to pretend to be something we weren't. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.” ― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
“It gets better. It never gets easy, but it does start to hurt a little less.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.” ― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation
“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.” ― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream
“Because hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world," said Sumi. Her voice was suddenly crystalline and clear, with none of her prior whimsy. She looked at Nancy with calm, steady eyes. "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. Ely-Eleanor is always saying 'don't use this word' and 'don't use that word,' but she never bans the ones that really bad. She never bans hope.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“Because hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.” ― Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night
“Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker” ― Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon
“Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“She was a story, not an epilogue.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.” ― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation
“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.” ― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones
“Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“Because ‘boys will be boys’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Lundy. “They’re too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked; when they disappear from the home, parents send search parties to dredge them out of swamps and drag them away from frog ponds. It’s not innate. It’s learned. But it protects them from the doors, keeps them safe at home. Call it irony, if you like, but we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.” ― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
“For us, places we went were home. We didn't care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn't have to pretend to be something we weren't. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.” ― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
“It gets better. It never gets easy, but it does start to hurt a little less.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.” ― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation
“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.” ― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream
“Because hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world," said Sumi. Her voice was suddenly crystalline and clear, with none of her prior whimsy. She looked at Nancy with calm, steady eyes. "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. Ely-Eleanor is always saying 'don't use this word' and 'don't use that word,' but she never bans the ones that really bad. She never bans hope.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“Because hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
“Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.” ― Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night
“Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker” ― Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon
“Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong.” ― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
