One Salt Sea Quotes

“That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“I was getting tired of being in an endless succession of things called "the fight of a lifetime." Just once, I'd like to have the fight of a Tuesday afternoon.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“she can stop traffic with a smile. I can stop traffic, too. I just tend to do it by crashing my car into something.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Um, hello?" I raised a hand. "Not a traitor, and the Queen told us where to find you. Or do you think that we're such major badasses that we fought our way through the knowe to come and loiter at you in an imposing fashion? Because I've got to say I'm flattered.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Hopefully, anyone who saw a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a wheelchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“I just wasn't anticipating Goblin assassins with crossbows pushing me into a situation where the only viable exit involved riding a mermaid's wheelchair into the marina.
Sometimes I think my life is too complicated.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“You know what “sorry” does? Sorry doesn’t do a damn thing.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Boring’ is not a virtue.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“A cat that looks bored is a cat that's getting ready to pounce.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Never bring a weapon too big to double as a dining utensil to the table when dining with friends.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Sometimes I miss the dark.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“As many streams meet in one salt sea;
So may a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“He knows how to do proper knightly things, like using a sword and not getting shot.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Did you find anything?"
"Nothing of interest. People fleeing. Poorly trained guards unable to believe an attack would occur within a royal knowe, thus proving that they possess an insufficient grasp of historical fact.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Most of the ones who come when the call goes out won't have ever fought a war before. They'll come because they think it's honorable, or because they want to be heroes. They'll show up in their pretty armor, and they'll litter the battlefield like leaves.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Little Mermaid, eat your heart out.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“I love ‘sort of,’ ”I said dryly. “It’s such a beautifully useless phrase.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Okay, I’ll be in my room if you need me. Please don’t need me. Also,”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“It’s nice to meet you.” “Family never meets family,” she said, ignoring my hand. She hugged me instead,”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Rosemary and Rue will surely appeal to readers who enjoy my books, or those of Patricia Briggs.” —Charlaine Harris”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“Her jewelry—necklace, earrings, even a matching bracelet—consisted of driftglass, seed pearls, and verdigris-tinted copper wire.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“That’s what I was afraid of. Sylvester, I can’t. I’m not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don’t brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a mermaid.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“It was closer to a plea than a request, filled with a parent’s need to have his heart returned. I’ve heard that tone in a lot of voices, including my own.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea

“The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.”
― Seanan McGuire, One Salt Sea