Angel of the Overpass Quotes

“I've always known people who thought that "Jesus take the wheel" was somehow comforting, and not a statement of fatalistic horror. Too many humans are happy to hand control over to the first cosmic power to stumble across them.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Love isn’t always a good thing. Love can be dangerous: toxic and corrosive and cruel. People act like love is one of the great positives of the universe, but those people usually haven’t seen love in the process of eating its prey alive. Love doesn’t let go, and love doesn’t forgive. Hate is worse, on the whole, but that doesn’t make love inherently kind. Nothing could.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Let my roots grow strong and my skin grow thick, that I might stand fast against all who would destroy me.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Love is so rarely enough. The poets told a lot of lies.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Nothing good survives summarization. Not even pie, and pie is a universal constant of goodness.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Toilets until the end of time is not the sort of thing most religions use as a selling point.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“I guess I have to change with them. That’s what humans do, after all. We change. Leave the stasis to the gods.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Hey, I’m a psychopomp in service to the Goddess of the Dead,” I say. “Reassuring isn’t in my tool kit.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Sometimes fairness isn’t the goal. Sometimes it’s all about survival”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Maybe it’s the perspective that comes with being dead, or maybe it’s the fact that we only see the bad ones, but it feels like there are more tragedies these days than there used to be.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Can this night get any more unpleasant? That’s not a question a smart person asks out loud. So I don’t.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“I slide in the driver's seat and run my hands across the wheel as his radio dial spins and lands on a country song about missing your girl when she's gone. I don't recognize the singer, and the lyrics could have been written any time in the last century. Country music is like that when it's not misogynistic and jingoistic and tedious.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“I know I've been shot so few times because I look like a pretty young white girl. That's a shield and a protection in a surprising amount of America-- even more now than it was a couple of decades ago. I thought it would be better by now.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Self-washing cars would be all the rage if we could find a way to create them without needing to bind a human soul to the frame.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Violence is not the answer to all the world's problems. It's just frequently the most efficient route to a solution. I'd like some efficiency about now.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Teenage girl in vintage prom dress screams 'fuck' while running down a poorly maintained back road, pursued by the vengeful aggregate ghost of several thousand dead dinosaurs" is never going to be one of those classic images of the American road, but I'm not here to be iconic: I'm here to not get eaten.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“When you’re an idea that walks like a woman, you get to be simple if you want to. Persephone is simple. All the divinities I’ve met have been simple. Oh, they have depths and undertows. They can get complicated real fast if that’s what they feel they need to do. But on a basic, “how difficult do I need this to be” level, they’re simple.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Many ghosts are cowards.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“You have no blood to pump, I thought. Your job is over. Stop it. It didn’t stop.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“I’m not always thrilled to belong to a goddess—I liked being a free agent”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“is a one-man PR disaster for the afterlife.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“It hurts like hell. I wish being dead meant an end to pain. That would be a nice trade-off, considering how many other things end when you die. Instead, it just means pain is . . . muted, sometimes.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“I could chase down the neighborhoods of her vowels and the countries of her consonants without even really trying, they’re that obvious.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Making mistakes is a part of being human. I just wish the mistakes weren’t directed quite so frequently at me.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“In the twilight, “so how did you die?” basically replaces “so, what do you do?” as an icebreaker.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Ghost ants are no friendlier than their living counterparts”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“One doesn’t walk into the presence of a goddess and walk away unchanged. There’s always a price to pay.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“I regret everything I do in your company,”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“Whether it’s a promise or a punishment doesn’t much matter.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass

“The living always privilege their guilt above the safety of the dead.”
― Seanan McGuire, Angel of the Overpass