It's very important to me that people get to see themselves in stories. When someone tells me they've never seen themselves, I… — Seanan McGuire Goal Copy Share Image
“You dead, or I need to hit you again? You know what, fuck it. I’m just going to hit you again.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Changing clothes in a public restroom is an acquired skill, one that becomes an art when the bathroom floor hasn't been washed… — Seanan McGuire Art Copy Share Image
“I'm Jack, short for Jacqueline [...] This is Jill, short for Jillian, because our parents should never have been allowed to name… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“I’ve had rest enough to last a lifetime, and only a lifetime for the rest of what’s to be done,” — Seanan McGuire Lifetime Copy Share Image
“Sometimes doing the right thing is the hardest thing in the entire world. Sometimes it costs you everything you have.' —Enid Healy” — Seanan McGuire Doing right Copy Share Image
“Every choice feeds every choice that comes after, whether we want those choices or no.” — Seanan McGuire Choice Copy Share Image
“The world is full of stories, and no matter how much time we spend in it—alive or dead—there’s never time to learn… — Seanan McGuire Stories Copy Share Image
Process does matter; you need a process. What it is is up to no one but you. But if you can't sit… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence—that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make… — Seanan McGuire Existence Copy Share Image
“Adults can still tumble down rabbit holes and into enchanted wardrobes, but it happens less and less with every year they live.… — Seanan McGuire Adults Copy Share Image
“Sing along for a few bars before changing it again. By the time we reached the darkened facade of La Maison, I… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“In Tybalt's case, it means bloody control of the local Court of Cats. He became their king by right of blood; he's… — Seanan McGuire Cats Copy Share Image
“Wisconsin doesn't look kindly on the weeks that slip in between the death of cold and the birth of warmth; Persephone may… — Seanan McGuire Death Copy Share Image
“couldn’t I have picked a more reasonable time to do it? Then again, when do I get a reasonable time to do… — Seanan McGuire Life Copy Share Image
“Faeries are real. Magic is real. My tendency to greet dangerous situations by plunging in headfirst and seeing how long it takes… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of issues with the three-tens,” I said. “First off, a lot of the time, the poor kids who… — Seanan McGuire Time Copy Share Image
“I am what I am, and there's much about me that won't be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I'm… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Louise Wolcott slipped out of her granddaughters’ lives as easily as she had slipped into them, becoming a distant name that sent… — Seanan McGuire Child Copy Share Image
“Magical thinking might seem like nonsense to some people, but he had danced with skeletons by the light of a marigold moon,… — Seanan McGuire Magical thinking Copy Share Image
“This, you see, is the danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look at… — Seanan McGuire Child Copy Share Image
“Nadya, who had spotted the three of them, was waving her arms frantically over her head, signaling her distress. In case this… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“He was wearing brown leather trousers, a darker brown leather vest, and a silk shirt that matched my dress. The sleeves were… — Seanan McGuire Fashion Copy Share Image
“I told them you almost certainly were not a serial killer, and that they were being horribly sexist by assuming that of… — Seanan McGuire Serial killer Copy Share Image
“There is kindness in the world, if we know how to look for it. If we never start denying it the door.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.” — Seanan McGuire Cliche Copy Share Image
I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Sometimes that’s all you can do. Just keep getting through until you don’t have to do it anymore, however much time that… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“You are not a cake, you are a human being, and I can see your vagina,' snapped Nadya. The stranger shrugged. 'It's… — Seanan McGuire Stranger Copy Share Image
“Who knows what’s going to go wrong next? The Luidaeg, probably. But she’s not telling.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“I’m just concerned.” “Don’t be. It’s not like my chronic migraine is going to kill us.” “Right.” She” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Sparrow Hill Road' is a stand-alone book that ties into the InCryptid universe, not the launching point for a whole new series. — Seanan McGuire Book Copy Share Image
I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories. — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Running through an unfamiliar forest filled with thorns is half an exercise in masochism, and half an obstacle course from the deepest… — Seanan McGuire Fitness Copy Share Image
“Sloane slipped into the room the way a knife slips into a wound: silently, and with the potential to do a lot… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
In the long run, I think I like 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' better as a television series, because it had so much… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“She was a bitter, resentful, maladjusted kid who grew into an equally maladjusted teenager; it was only natural that we’d become friends… — Seanan McGuire Friend Copy Share Image
“New York is a city built upon the cannibalized remains of its own past, constantly changing, constantly the same.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales. — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“It's funny how people can change your life without meaning to. Even the fucked-up, crazy people leave everything different when they go… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image