Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day Quotes

“The world is full of stories, and no matter how much time we spend in it—alive or dead—there’s never time to learn them all. They just go by so quickly.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“People aren’t so good at being good to one another. We try hard enough, but something essential was left out in the making of us, some hard little patch of stone in the fertile soil that’s supposed to be our hearts. We get hung up on the bad, and we focus on it until it grows, and the whole crop is lost.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“Sometimes, even the strongest people get tired.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“These days, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to take the time and care needed to coax the land into giving up its glories. People don’t change. We’re always selfish, and we’re always hungry. We’ve just gotten better at looking at greed and saying ‘Oh, that’s self-interest, that’s all right.’ We’ve forgotten the way the word ‘enough’ feels on the tongue.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“Time is time and that's enough, because time is more precious than diamonds, more rare than pearls. Money comes and goes, but time only goes. Time doesn't come back for anyone, not even for the restless dead, who move it from place to place. Time is finite. Money is not.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“I walk with my hands in my pockets and the streetlights casting halogen halos though the fog, and I can't help thinking this is probably what Heaven will be like, warm air and cloudy skies and the feeling of absolute contentment that only comes from coffee and pie and knowing your place in the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“The highest is in Las Vegas, where everything is twilight and neon and no one notices if your eyes bleed screams and your skin feels like slow murder.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“It wasn’t much. It wasn’t enough. It was everything I deserved.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“The laws of magic, like the laws of nature, are not always as balanced as they might seem.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“Patty is gone. My parents are gone. The things that matter the most about the Hollow are underground and resting peacefully . . . but in a way, that means Brenda's right, because they're still here. They're never going to leave. I'm still here too. I never left, not in body, not in bone. Dusk or dark or dawn or day, I've been here the whole time.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“It could have been he was always supposed to die at my hand. Only no, he was always supposed to get pasted across an intersection because he didn’t look both ways. Bastard.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“the distant whisper of the creek as it runs between the roots of trees so much older than I am that they probably never noticed I was here, much less mourned when I was gone. This is home.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“Everything’s a haunted house in today’s America. Everything’s in need of an exorcism.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“I can’t help thinking this is probably what Heaven will be like, warm air and cloudy skies and the feeling of absolute contentment that comes only from coffee and pie and knowing your place in the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day

“People think too much about money, and not enough about taking care of each other."
"They're alive,"
"They won't be forever.”
― Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day