Juice Like Wounds Quotes

“All stories are weapons, and children’s stories are doubly so, for children have not yet learned how to be careful.”
― Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds

“There are some people for whom the only fair value is their own dominance over everyone around them,” said the Archivist. “They can’t look at someone who is equal to themselves and see them clearly; they assume that for anyone else to be the same, they must be cheating, or that something must have been taken from the first and given to the second, for surely it can’t have been earned. For them, a level stretch of ground is an unfair advantage given to others who don’t deserve to be elevated to what they consider their rightful place. They believe themselves above the world, above the Market. They never understand what it can cost to care.”
― Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds

“Stories are weapons, you see. All stories. Some are swords and some are cudgels, but all of them can hurt you, if you allow it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds

“Time is never as full as it seems when clutching the vessel, when measuring the drinking of it with our eyes. Time always runs out before anyone is ready, before every cup is full.”
― Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds

“It was a small price to pay for the delight of access to new books, and if it felt a little bit like homework, well, the more Lundy learned about living in the Market, the more she came to see homework as a sort of fair value given to her teachers. They gave her lessons, and she gave them proof that those lessons had not been wasted.”
― Seanan McGuire, Juice Like Wounds