Late Eclipses Quotes

“Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“As often as men slam me into things, you’d think I’d get laid more.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“Better cranky and alive than cheerful and dead.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“In the end there's never a sanctuary. You run until there's nowhere left to run to, and then you fight, and then you die, and then it's over. That's how the world works, and if there's any way to change that, I hope someone's eventually planning to let me know.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“What's the point of holding on if I can't save the ones that I can't afford to lose?”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“We are handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“In the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive me what I’m about to do.”
“Forgive you wha—”
My sentence was cut off as he clamped his mouth over mine, kissing me deeply.

...

“Ready to make a scene?”
He raised an eyebrow. “Do I have a choice?”
“Not really. To quote something someone said to me recently, in the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive what I’m about to do.” I drew back my hand and slapped him across the face. The smack of flesh striking flesh echoed through the hall. Conversations stopped as people whipped around to stare at us. Raising my voice to something just below a shout, I snarled, “You asshole!”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“I'm sorry to go, but its alright. Rivers dry up; tides ebb; the sea goes on.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“Toby, please stop punching Etienne in the head. It's not helping.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“Faerie may not always have been the kindest place to live, but it was still my home. I owed it to Gillian, To May, to Dare, and Tybalt and January, and all the others not to say that my life had been a mistake. Not when it had been so intertwined with theirs.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“You can live your life in "should" and never change anything. What's done is done. We buried our dead. I went home. Manuel went to Shadowed Hills to hate me in peace.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“Raysel, you told me yourself that your father wasn't my liege anymore. I don't have to obey his wishes, spoken or unspoken, and so I can finally say this: go drown yourself, you self-righteous little bitch.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“Poison doesn't break Oberon's law unless somebody dies. There are circles where putting your enemies to sleep for a thousand years is perfectly normal.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“She did the best with what she had, and that's all any of us can do. We're handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“No matter how bad the world gets, you still have to feed the cats.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“He was a hero once, and it's the nature of heroes to throw themselves headlong into impossible odds, believing that somehow they'll come through them alive. The problem is that it's also in the nature of heroes to die, and I had no way of being sure that Sylvester didn't plan to do exactly that. I should know how heroes are. Somewhere along the way, I became one.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“She said she'd been in relationships with way bigger problems than one of us being a transitory manifestation of impending doom. Like this one girl who liked her computer more than she liked her girlfriend, and another one who smoked.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“Did I ever tell you what came between your mother's heart and mine?"
"I don't think this is the time--"
"Your friend would disagree," she said, almost playfully, her attention darting to Tybalt. Focusing in me again, she said, "He all but burns with what he doesn't say to you, and my time is mine to spend.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“I've never been a good cook - my ex-fiance once compared my meatloaf to roadkill - but I used to make more of an effort. Then my liege lord asked me for a "little favor" and I wound up spending fourteen years as an enchanted fish. It was difficult to work up any enthusiasm about learning to make a casserole after that.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“There's no more damage to be done," she said, in a faint, almost thoughtful voice. "No more damage, no salvation. One more of Faerie's glorious monsters lost."
"If you'd left us alone--" I began.
"You'd have sent some hero after me, given time enough. I killed, I die. At least I killed like a monster kills, instead of with iron, and dying by inches. That's Titania's way, the Queen who stands in the darkness and screams about her light.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“if people wanted to talk to me from a million miles away, that was their problem, not mine.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“Herding the fae really is a lot like herding cats, only pointier and less rewarding.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“In the end, there’s never a sanctuary. You run until there’s nowhere left to run to, and then you fight, and then you die, and then it’s over. That’s how the world works, and if there’s a way to change that, I hope someone’s eventually planning to let me know.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“This is how it should end. They won't remember the way I died, but they'll remember how I lived, forever. I was the monster under your bed, wasn't I? I'll be the monster waiting for your children.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“You can live your life in "should" and never change anything.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“crawl or pay the consequences. Going through the Caldecott Tunnel when none of the other drivers could see me is one of the most harrowing things I’ve ever done of my own free will. There was only one other car in the parking lot when we arrived at Paso Nogal: a battered but serviceable silver Toyota that looked familiar enough to have been made before I wound up in the pond. Walther was standing next to it, attention on the small glass vial in his hand. I pulled up beside him and killed the engine. He didn’t look up. I glanced to May. “Okay. That’s a good spell.” Even May looked impressed. “I didn’t realize it was that good.” “Well, drop it. We need to talk to him.” “Right.” She clapped her hands, bobbing her head a la Barbara Eden. The spell burst like a soap bubble, leaving”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“In the end, there’s never a sanctuary. You run until there’s nowhere left to run to, and then you fight, and then you die, and then it’s over. That’s how the world works,”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“Okay, my life makes even less sense when you understand it. Whose doesn’t?”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“She didn’t choose what she was. She did her best with what she had, and that’s all any of us can do. We’re handed the balance of our blood and the shape of our lives and told to do something with them.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses

“when Tavis stood all the way up, it was like watching a wall decide to get involved.”
― Seanan McGuire, Late Eclipses