A Red-Rose Chain Quotes

“Be sure you include a gift card for Tim Hortons,” he said. “That’s how we say ‘sorry for killing your firstborn son’ in Canada.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“I’m not sorry," said Quentin. "One of them tried to take my throat away from me. With its teeth. I’m not you. I need my throat.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Sometimes romance is of less importance than the feeling of being absolutely safe: of knowing that nothing and no one can hurt you, because the person who loves you most in all the world will destroy them if they try.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Even when she slept, she tossed and turned and squirmed, like she was secretly a hurricane forced into a girl-body and told to exist as best she could among people who had no idea what it meant to secretly be a weather pattern.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“It was like Rhys had ordered the whole thing from Castles R Us, and then never bothered to swing by the local Bed, Battlements, and Beyond for the accessories he’d need to make it believable.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“What is wrong? Is this related to the notice I received from Queen Windermere that a war was being beta-tested, and might be cleared for release? I do not have time to allow my coders to be slaughtered. It seems very inefficient.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Children of Maeve reproducing with children of Titania wasn’t like apples mixing with oranges—it was more like apples mixing with cheese graters, or rainbows with hardware stores.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Nameless McBitchypants”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Change sucks. No one’s going to argue about that. Change is hard and painful and sometimes we wind up losing things we wanted to keep forever.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“You know, just once, I want a beautiful woman to exploit me for something other than my magic and dangerous political connections.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Oh, her? She had raised a hand against us, and willingly entered our circle. We ate her.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Let's go get ready to do something incredibly stupid."
"Business as usual, then," he said, and fled the kitchen, laughing, before I could swat him.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“your entire life has been a succession of things you were not equipped for, and while you may have, as you so charmingly say, ‘screwed some of them up,’ you have, in the main, come through spectacularly well. You are surrounded by allies, and each of us is, in our own way, uniquely suited to the challenges ahead—as are you, or you wouldn’t be here.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“May’s style was best described as “Jem and the Holograms meets Rainbow Brite.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“When I’m a woman, I eat Pop-Tarts and vindaloo. When I’m a big black bird, I eat eyeballs and spleens. It’s all part of the glorious contradiction that is me.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Each time I tell myself you have reached the summit of your strangeness, you find a way to climb still higher.” “Look at it this way: being married to me will never be boring.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“I have a talent for complicating situations,” I said.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Sometimes I think Faerie goes to war as much because we can’t find anyone who’d rather talk things out as for any other reason. Diplomacy is not a valued skill among the Courts. Most of our nobles would prefer to do the dance of manners and then slide a knife between someone’s ribs. It’s more fun than actually discussing trade sanctions and why it’s rude to kill your neighbors.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Don’t underestimate him just because he’s a fool,”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“The bedroom was as opulently decorated as the front room, with a bed large enough to hold six, and a wardrobe that should by all rights have contained a doorway to Narnia, or at least the deeper lands of Faerie.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Most of the neighbors hated us in an offhand sort of manner, since we had twice the space they did, plus a parking area and a small yard—all things virtually unheard of in modern-day San Francisco. I was sure they’d change their minds if they knew how much I’d bled to earn that house. Or maybe not. Reserved parking is hard to come by in this city.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Sometimes the high ground is reserved for the people who think honor is more important than living.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Just thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve managed to wind up covered in blood,” I said. “It’s like a new trend. A blood-free trend.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Sadly, as I had come to learn, sometimes being a pincushion is my purpose in life.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“The look she leveled on him was pure aunt.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“I hate that you make me be a monster for you,”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“Total freedom was terrifying. Boundaries made it controllable, and hence enjoyable again.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“I won't pretend the life I lived before you was somehow the lesser for your absence. There was no hole waiting for you to come along and fill it. I loved often, if not always well. I fought, I fled, I ruled my people, and I thought myself content. But since you have returned to us-since the waters of the Tea Gardens gave you up, and gave you back to me-not a day has passed without my considering the fragility of your smile, or the color of your eyes. You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain