The Innocent Sleep Quotes

“Paradise doesn’t have to be real. It just has to be believed.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“Love is a knife forever suspended an inch from your heart, and if it falls or you stumble into it, you can all too easily find yourself impaled and bleeding.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“I was so tired of being patient. I was ready to rip this world down, and the fact that I couldn’t was like fleas running across my skin, biting at me and draining my blood.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“Like us, they start their lives as young things, and move into the jaded languor of experience.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“It seems you are forever drawn into the chaos we create.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“Living my life to disappoint my father had been something to aspire to.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“I thought it was showing a willingness to forgive the limitations of others. If nothing else, people are more forgiving of my limitations when I have already forgiven their own.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“I was never the cleverness-and-trickery sort of hero. Brute force and stubbornness is much more my speed.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“The political lives of pixies can be surprisingly complicated.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“I would have preferred a less-unhappy bonding activity, but I suppose we don’t get to dictate the world—and if Titania’s example was anything to go by, that was entirely for the best.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“Not that I was here to critique the décor, but the temptation was strong.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“Really, all of Faerie was better when we came together, when we didn’t split ourselves with artificial boundaries and pretend that we weren’t meant to be connected.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“I was doing my best. I really didn’t see what more she could ask. I was staying away so that she could talk to the woman I loved without the risk of my clear distress interfering; I was punching the wall, not shredding the tapestries or turning into a cat and hiding under the nearest piece of furniture. Really, by any reasonable standard, I was behaving myself fantastically well.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“I can enjoy the comforts of a lie without believing it to be a truth.” “Self-serving.” “Cat,” I said, as if that explained everything, and perhaps it did.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“Why are you so unbothered by the idea that I might be?” “We have tales of such as you, and they always begin the same way: ‘One day came a stranger to the hall.’” Garm shrugged. “I suppose I’m not disturbed because I’ve always hoped to one day stumble into a story.” “You’re very calm.” “A personal failing of mine.” His eyes, for all his calm affect, were bright, and he was watching me intently. If”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“As if I would ever have dallied with a man with so few limbs, and those he had so rigid with bone.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“It was a strange sort of secondary immortality.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“Like every other baby I’d seen, he looked nothing like his parents, and more like the unpleasant blend of a salmon and a drowned human.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“The thought of irritating one of the Firstborn wasn’t as terrifying as it should have been, considering everything else that was happening.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“The Firstborn are capable of compassion. I’ve seen it many times, most often from the Luidaeg, but from others as well. Some of them remember that the world moves more quickly than they do, and that they must be kind to those who are more temporary than they are.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“From a great enough height, even water may turn into a weapon.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“The slumber of cats is a sacred thing, worthy of respect, and even in my anger, I winced as I drove my hand into the pile and scruffed the first neck I found, dragging a drowsing, one-eyed tabby to the top.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“People react so oddly to the changing of names, as if anyone has ever been defined by a simple sound.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“no one has ever successfully compelled a cat to make their mind up before they were prepared to do so.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep

“The Shadow Roads did treat her harshly, even after all this time.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Innocent Sleep