Seasonal Fears Quotes

“Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. —Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“What loves you is the best positioned to hurt you, because you let it in.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“Harry,” hisses Jack. “She’s not acting superior because she’s older. She’s doing it because she’s Mathematical Function Incarnate, fully manifest, and she could edit us out of existence if she wanted to.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“You don’t know how the police work. If you get out of this car and start walking toward them, you’re going to cross a bunch of invisible lines they’ve drawn with their authority and their presence, and they’re not going to like it. You’re a pretty white woman, so you’ll probably make it to the motel without anyone shooting you, but then they’ll start telling you what to do, and they won’t be nice about it. They won’t let you see the bodies, if there are any. They won’t tell you where your sister went, or anything else you want to know. They won’t help you, Aven. They won’t make this any easier.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“The history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“Humans are petty and awful and mean and small, but they’re also generous and wonderful and kind and the biggest things that could ever exist. Humans matter,”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“The future is another country, and he wishes he didn’t have to go there,”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“The man seems to think of himself as invincible, and while he knows it would mean his job, he’s sometimes tempted to steer into turbulence, just to bounce his employer off the walls a few times and make him understand that money doesn’t grant immunity from physics.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“Too many powerful people have died because they decided they were better than the sky.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“She has a theory that the elderly tend to become hoarders because they’re trying to externalize their memories as much as they reasonably can, tying important moments to objects and artifacts as they sense, in some indefinable way, that their minds are growing close to capacity.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“Harry's head is spinning. Jack says these things like they make sense, and then she moves along, heading for the next thing she wants to say, not pausing long enough to see if he's following her.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears

“Scary women always like to be told how scary they are.”
― Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears