Aftermarket Afterlife Quotes

“Your relationship dynamic is mysterious and strange to me.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“Sometimes we hurt each other, and it’s always our responsibility, but it’s not always our fault.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“All preschoolers are demanding. Preschoolers who recognize me as their dedicated babysitter are a special sort of demanding. They have no reason to expect that I would ever tell them no.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“I do not appreciate how much of this family is cavalier about linear distance.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“Elsie didn’t have a lot of what I might call “ambition” or “motivation” or desire to move out of her childhood bedroom, but she made up for it in sweetness and loyalty.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“So far, being dead was no more pleasant than being alive had been, and a hell of a lot more confusing.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“That was... a lot," said Sally. "Someone's going to explain all of this eventually, right? I'm not going to feel like I started reading a series in the middle forever?”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“carnivals are things for twilight and darkness, not the blazing light of the Idaho afternoon.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“Mothers and daughters . . . oh, they always fight, and they don’t always make up. People will tell you they do, but those are always the people who had easy relationships with their mothers. Sometimes the schisms go too deep. Sometimes nothing heals.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“Life is short and death is long, so ghosts who aren’t terrible people do what we can to preserve the sanctity of the former, even if it means being a little cagey about the afterlife.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“The trouble with living in the present is that we’re always acting on the information we have available, and we never have the whole picture.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“and adopted siblings they refused to put back where they’d come from.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“Mothers and daughters... oh, they always fight, and they don't always make up. People will tell you they do, but those are always the people who had easy relationships with their mothers. Sometimes the schisms go too deep. Sometimes nothing heals.”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife

“That was . . . a lot,” said Sally. “Someone’s going to explain all of this eventually, right? I’m not going to feel like I started reading a series in the middle forever?”
― Seanan McGuire, Aftermarket Afterlife