Pocket Apocalypse Quotes

“Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Australia basically holds the copyright on “weird ecosystem.” The only place where you’re going to find weirder things is at the bottom of the ocean, and no one suggests that you go there for a fun family vacation.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Logic and loss aren't always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that's okay.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“The trick to doing things people say are impossible is confidence. As long as you seem to know what you’re doing, and never hesitate, you’re very unlikely to face any challenges. People don’t like to break illusions, even when they don’t know that’s what they’re looking at.” —Kevin Price”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Hey, it’s okay. No one knows everything until they learn about it. That’s the whole point of learning things, isn’t it? We go out, we learn, we know more. It’s cool.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Family matters more than anything else in this world. Family doesn’t have to love you. Family doesn’t even have to like you. But when you need them, family has to have your back.” —Kevin Price”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“I think sometimes the world doesn’t really care about how we feel. It just keeps on turning, and we’re expected to do whatever we have to in order to keep up.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“We have added a new Occasion to the calendar,” squeaked the junior priest in charge of the congregation. “We will spend this night in Solemn Contemplation, and there will be little shouting, or cheering, or speaking.” “Cool, thanks.” I paused. “What’s the new occasion?” “We will celebrate Crossing the Sea, and Arriving in Australia, and Killing a Very Large Snake,” said the priest solemnly.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“I had to admire the Evil Dead-level dedication that went into thinking “I’ll take a chainsaw into battle against a werewolf,” even as I wanted to find out who thought it was a good idea and shake them until they realized the error of their ways. Almost”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Airplanes: essentially buses that fly, and hence have the potential to drop out of the sky at any moment, spreading your insides -- which will no doubt become your outsides sometime during the collision -- across whatever you happen to have been flying over. Since we were flying mainly over ocean, I was the sure sharks would appreciate our sacrifice.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Hello,” she said. “Have you heard the good word of Wadjet, Protector of Egypt and great snake of the Milky Way?”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Hope springs eternal, I guess, and is rarely questioned when it’s harbored by a woman whose idea of “Hello” sometimes involves frag grenades.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Actually, yes, I would say something like ‘there may be bears here.’ Bears are not a pleasant surprise for most people.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“His smile was long gone, like it had never been there at all.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Logic and loss aren’t always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that’s okay. School”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Sometimes it’s convenient to have a pet that no one believes in. I’d never be allowed to bring a cat to work every day, but since Crow “isn’t real,” no one’s ever reported him to the zoo management. Other times, I think it would be nice to stop hiding him from the world. Miniature griffins could be the next big trend in exotic pets.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Every touch, every kiss, it was all stolen, and we were willing accomplices in the burglary of one another’s bodies.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“In the Good Girl Olympics, Jett was clearly taking home the gold, and might be shooting to bring back the silver and the bronze as well, just for the sake of having a complete set.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Fluffy clouds of sheep dotted the green, and we were far enough away that they looked a little dingy but not filthy—a beautiful trick of distance. (Sheep are some of the nastiest creatures in the world. They’re smelly, stupid things that have been bred to have way too much hair, meaning that all their bodily fluids and drippings get felted right into the wool. If not for bleach, we’d all walk around covered in sheep shit all the time. Agriculture is not a pretty thing.)”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that’s okay.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Brains are a liability when you’re trying to build an army,”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Every sound I heard signaled danger to my shock-addled mind, until I found myself flinching at birdsong.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Everything seemed to slow down, the way it does when everything is going wrong.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“That, right there, was why I didn’t like the word “Covenant” being bandied around like it was somehow relevant to who I was and the choices I’d made with my life.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“with the defined upper body of a weightlifter and the scowl of an angry Norse God.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Logic and loss aren’t always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that’s okay.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“We walked almost a mile before we came out of the woods atop a ridge overlooking a broad green meadow that looked almost artificial in its pastoral sweetness, like someone had transplanted it from a movie set in New Zealand. Fluffy clouds of sheep dotted the green, and we were far enough away that they looked a little dingy but not filthy—a beautiful trick of distance. (Sheep are some of the nastiest creatures in the world. They’re smelly, stupid things that have been bred to have way too much hair, meaning that all their bodily fluids and drippings get felted right into the wool. If not for bleach, we’d all walk around covered in sheep shit all the time. Agriculture is not a pretty thing.)”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“There’s something remarkably artificial about a certain type of bureaucratic sterility, like even it can’t make up its mind whether or not it actually exists.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse

“Domestic airplanes are basically designed to keep people seated, settled, and sedated for the duration of flight. If they could, they would install catheters in the seats and strap the people down from takeoff until landing. International flights are a little different, due to the part where sometimes people’s veins explode if they sit still in a pressurized cabin for too long. (This may be a small exaggeration—emphasis on “small,” not “exaggeration.” Deep vein thrombosis is the silent killer of the long-haul flight.) To combat this, international carriers often encourage people to get up, move around, and keep their blood circulating normally. Sure, it means the aisles get a little crowded from time to time, and it makes the TSA nervous, but better that than a bunch of dead passengers.”
― Seanan McGuire, Pocket Apocalypse