Be the Serpent Quotes

“Intent is fairy gold. It makes you feel like you’ve paid in the moment, but it turns to dust and leaves when the sun comes up and everyone sees what you’ve done. You did harm.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“One of the few mercies of Faerie is that the purebloods like ritual and tradition so much that they have predetermined ways of saying almost everything from “Bob’s dead” to “Bob’s pregnant” to “Bob’s overthrown the rightful ruler and if you don’t recognize him as King right now, you’re going to regret it.” It’s sort of like having a society run by greeting cards.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“My life got weird at some point, is what I’m saying, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“I seem to have a calling for chaos, and it finds me even when I don’t go looking.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“If glaring at things made them go away, the world would be a very different place.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“Time isn’t fair. Never has been, never will be. It’s a lot like Faerie that way.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“The only thing worse than attending a formal Court is attending a formal Court where I’m expected to participate in legal arguments. Normally, I come in, get into a fight with the nearest noble, stab something, and leave. It’s very efficient and dramatic and entirely inappropriate when you’re trying to convince the Queen to authorize the early awakening of someone who may not have broken Oberon’s Law in a way that anyone would hold against her, but who had definitely behaved in an inappropriate and impolite manner, possibly racking up several charges of offense in the process.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“We don’t do family reunions, but I bet they’d be fun, in the “entrails all over the lawn” sort of sense.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“If someone bothered to untangle our family tree, they’d probably find proof that I’m actually his aunt or something, which only gets more ridiculous the more I think about it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“Intent is fairy gold. It makes you feel like you’ve paid in the moment, but it turns to dust and leaves when the sun comes up and everyone sees what you’ve done.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“Pride has its place. So does fear.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“Okay, I love you, but if you’re about to apologize for being less powerful than Titania, we’re going to have a talk about your superiority complex,”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“You remember what it was to be a teenager, Toby. Feeling like we didn’t measure up was our hobby.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“Faerie is built on a foundation of falsehoods and hidden truths, and we’d be healthier if we started talking to each other, but sometimes it feels like we don’t want to do that because once we start, we can never shut up.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“That’s not even splitting hairs. That’s twisting a technicality until it cries.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“Faerie readied us for war, because the war was already happening”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“Usually, like any sleeping cat, he either woke up at the slightest motion or slept with such total dedication that nothing short of an earthquake would disturb his slumber.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent

“Making sense is something that happens to other people.”
― Seanan McGuire, Be the Serpent