Quotes by Seanan McGuire

About Seanan McGuire:

Seanan McGuire is an American author and filker. In 2010 she was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention, largely because of her urban fantasy/detective story Rosemary and Rue, and has published a number of other novels since then also featuring October Daye.
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You are covered in blood," Tybalt said again, stressing the words harder this time. "It makes me tense." There was a thud as the guard hit the floor, and Tybalt returned to my side. "Wow. You must be tense a lot." He sighed. "You have no idea.

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Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.

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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 leave you while both of us are living. You were not quite thi...

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I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.

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Crazy gets all the knives.

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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.

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I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy.

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Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure t...

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

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The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy

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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 cuc...

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

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He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

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Luna had told us not to drop the rose, not to leave the path. But we never dropped the rose - it was on me the whole time - and we didn't leave the path, not really. We just took a shortcut through the shadows and the brush, something idiots have bee...

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I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.

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He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around." "Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?" Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn'...

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

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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 tha...

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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.

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Lindworms are a sign of a healthy ecosystem,” I said, straightening. “Now let’s get out of here before the healthy ecosystem eats us.

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Author Bio

  • NameSeanan McGuire
  • Descriptionscience fiction and fantasy author from the USA
  • AliasesMira Grant
  • BornJanuary 5, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Filk; Novelist
  • AwardsJohn W. Campbell Award For Best New Writer