When Sorrows Come Quotes

“Sometimes I think being May must be deeply confusing. And then I remember that being me is deeply confusing, and amend that to “being a person” is deeply confusing, and move on.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“I wasn’t looking to make myself angry. I was trying to triangulate how angry I should be. There’s a difference. Honest, there’s a difference.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Faerie’s relationship to physics is often casual at best, and sometimes it consists of Faerie promising to call when physics knows it never will.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“If monarchs are that much against being overthrown, they shouldn’t do things that would make it seem like a good idea.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“The rot at the root isn’t the revolution, it’s the ruler who refuses to resign. King-breaking is a symptom of sickness, not the cause.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Yenay stepped forward, the precious ledger clutched to her chest like a teddy bear. “Please don’t get blood on the books,” she said, in a gasp. “They don’t deserve that.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Are you okay?” he asked, in a small voice. “I don’t know,” I said. “Apparently, my entire family has been conspiring to abduct me to Canada because I can’t be trusted to know the date of my own damn wedding. So I’m feeling a little left out and a little disrespected and a lot like I need to go lie down in my bed or stand in a hot shower until I stop wanting to stab you all.” “We don’t heal the way you do,” said Dean. “Hence the restraint,” I said, through gritted teeth.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Sometimes surrounding myself with teenagers feels like a questionable life choice.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“What's the point of having an enchanted wedding dress if you can't use it as an infinite rose generator?”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Congratulations on the occasion of your marriage, and may the blessings piled upon your house be so vast the roof is in danger of collapse before you can get the wedding party to safety.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“I know how your head works. When something seems like it’s too good for you, you run away from it as fast as you can.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“I was grateful for Tybalt’s intervention, even as I lightly resented the need for it.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Yes, but where’s the fun in talking like normal people?” asked Aethlin. “Half the time I’m a King of Faerie. The other half, I’m standing in line at Tim Hortons and some asshole in a hockey uniform has just taken the last sour cream glazed. We have to wallow in the aesthetic when we get the chance.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“More, is there anyone in Faerie who doesn’t need therapy?”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“The majority of fae, if asked to label themselves by modern human terms, will go with “bisexual,” because the gender of their partners matters a lot less than the fact that everyone is there to have a good time. With shapeshifters and transformation magic and people who are literally trees for half the year running around, even “gender” can get a little bit vague and is rarely discussed outside of private conversations.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Being basically impossible to kill, no matter how hard you try, is a gift of mine. I’ve drowned, been stabbed, bled to death, and—my personal favorite—fallen from such a great height that impact with the ground broke every bone in my body. And every time, I’ve gotten better.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“King Shallcross’s men had attempted to shoot us all to death. They’d mostly failed, succeeding only in shooting us to severe annoyance.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Yay for Canada, Canada's cool.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“lurching from crisis to crisis like some sort of wind-up disaster mannequin—”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Keeping my language from turning unintentionally cruel is more and more difficult as I get older and learn how many ways there are to hurt people unintentionally.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Oddly, that helps me sleep during the day. Knowing I made my own bed makes it easier to lie in it.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“I wouldn’t have placed my bet on today. And that’s okay. We live in stories, but we’re not stories, and sometimes the best endings are the ones no one sees coming.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“That was all I ever wanted from her, or from anyone, really. For them to see that I was hurting myself on their behalf, and not let them pretend they had no part in it.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Don’t be sarcastic,” I said, elbowing him lightly in the side. “I know it’s your primary means of communication, but that doesn’t make it appropriate right now.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“King-breaker and chaos-chosen,”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“He wasn’t used to this sort of thing, not having been around long enough to become acclimated to the level of casual chaos that the rest of us live with on a daily basis.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“I spent enough time very bitter indeed to understand that clinging to joy when I find it is the most essential thing in the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“I just got up. Breakfast, then horrifying drama.” Always horrifying drama. In this house, horrifying drama is never a sometimes food.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“it’s that everyone matters. The alternative is a world where no one matters, and since I know that isn’t true, “everyone” is the only option we have left.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come

“Everyone has their own idea of what makes a happy ending.”
― Seanan McGuire, When Sorrows Come