Night and Silence Quotes

“You lost a great deal of blood.” “I didn’t lose it,” I said. “I know exactly where it is.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“If you’re hurt, you let me help you heal,” I said. “If you’re damaged, we learn the ways around it together. I don’t care whether you can be fixed. I don’t care whether you flinch at shadows. All I want is for you to be with me—and let me be a part of whatever ‘getting better’ looks like now.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“Your head. It’s got its own undertow, you know, and if you swim too deep, it can suck you down. You can’t chase the tide. You need to stay on the shore and let it come to you.” She shook her head. “I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be fine. I wouldn’t do it even if I was still allowed to lie. Some things are too cruel even for a sea witch. But I will tell you that what’s on the other side of that door is never going to be as bad as the undertow in your own mind.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“That’s the thing about time, about youth. It passes, and you become a bit more yourself with every day gone.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“Seriously, is this ‘gang up on Toby’ night? Can you let me know when you schedule these, so I can arrange to be somewhere else? Like, I don’t know, another Kingdom?”

“Most other Kingdoms won’t let you in,” said Danny, almost reasonably. “You keep deposin’ their monarchs."

“I’ve never deposed anyone who didn’t deserve it,” I said. “And I’ve only done it twice.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“I had absolutely no idea how to fight architectural poultry.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“You say things, and I’m sure they make sense in your head, but they don’t make much sense outside of it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be fine. I wouldn’t do it even if I was still allowed to lie. Some things are too cruel even for a sea witch. But I will tell you that what’s on the other side of that door is never going to be as bad as the undertow in your own mind.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“As Sir Daye’s squire, I must apologize, again, for her having the manners of a kelpie.” “Don’t be silly, Quentin,” said Danny. “Kelpies are politer.” “Kelpies are aquatic murder horses that want to rip you apart and eat everything but your liver,” I protested. Danny smirked. “As I was sayin’.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“The day I cannot carry my heart along the Shadow Roads is the day I am King no longer, but only a man who has failed himself so profoundly that his days of peace are done”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“The sea witch was a surprisingly calm and competent driver. She used her turn signals”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“Hearts are resilient. They can heal over and over again. That’s the good part. The bad part is that having a resilient heart means it can be broken so many times that it feels like it should never recover, like it should be nothing but a pile of shards in my chest.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“like the speaker had been in California for so long that even her vowels were applying for citizenship.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“There are nights when I feel like my life should come with some sort of flowchart, and then there are the nights when I feel like even that would be too confusing to understand.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“A flying hedgehog slammed into my front window”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“vendors”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“There are worse places to stand in our world than at the left hand of the Queen. I should know, having stood in many of them.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“I babble when I’m nervous. It’s a dreadful habit, but that doesn’t make it any easier to do away with.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“Stop,” she said, not unkindly. “You’re chasing the tide again, and you’re never going to catch it.” “Excuse me?” “Your head. It’s got its own undertow, you know, and if you swim too deep, it can suck you down. You can’t chase the tide. You need to stay on the shore and let it come to you.” She shook her head. “I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be fine. I wouldn’t do it even if I was still allowed to lie. Some things are too cruel even for a sea witch. But I will tell you that what’s on the other side of that door is never going to be as bad as the undertow in your own mind.” I”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“Well,” said May, after a long pause. “You’ve pissed off the Queen who’s actually in charge of us and convinced a Queen who isn’t that she should help us out. That’s . . . pretty true to form. You’re still you. I just checked.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“We’re all afraid. That’s what it is to be a mother. We’re all afraid.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“Dignified? No. But when has survival ever been about dignity?”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“My eyes couldn’t lie to me when they weren’t involved.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence