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Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11) QUOTES

Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11) QUOTES

1 " According to Mary, pain leaves marks on the nervous system, and enough pain, over enough time, can scar. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

2 " It’s just that home is rarely a place. It’s a combination of conditions. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

3 " My body and I aren’t always friends, "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

4 " I’ve been falling out of trees, breaking bones, and trying to shake off blood loss almost since I was old enough to walk, and when you learn to treat all injuries as a mild inconvenience, you can handle almost anything. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

5 " Trauma changes who you are, and there’s no way to say ‘well, I’m finished with this, I’m going to move on now.’ You have to figure out how to reconcile it with everything else you understand about yourself, and sometimes it really sucks. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

6 " I say, “relatively easy,” which means it wasn’t impossible, the way it should have been for someone as magically inert as I was. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

7 " It wasn’t going to stop me from injuring them, but no one ever said I was into proportionate response. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

8 " People who call themselves “Autarchs” and start collecting people who need their inexplicably benevolent “protection” are very rarely awesome, in my experience. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

9 " Hope makes you worry about how much you’re bleeding. Fatalism makes you do more damage before you die. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

10 " I still couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t even nod anymore. Everything was crashing down on top of me, walls eroded by relief and finally feeling like I could relax. How much damage had I done to myself in the process of running? How much of it could have been avoided? “Oh, Alice . . .” Thomas put his arm around me, drawing me up against his body. “If I wasn’t already convinced, this would convince me. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

11 " like something this big and complicated and messy would ever be that straightforward when it didn’t have to be. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

12 " For someone most people consider an unstable loner, I sure do wind up with a lot of obligations, and I don’t like any of them. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

13 " She might not be wearing her trauma as obviously as some of the others, but she was still wearing it. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

14 " I hated him. He was my father, and I loved him, and I hated him. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

15 " My clergy splintered after you disappeared,” I said. “There are two completely different faiths now. I suppose they’ll have to reunify after this. That should be fun to watch.” Sally snorted, and apparently dismissing talking mice as only the fifth most impossible thing she’d seen this week, turned to digging through the fridge. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

16 " All at the same time, Sally, Thomas, and I stepped through the thin spot this opened in the walls of the world, and we were safely on our way. The feeling of transition was familiar. The feeling of doing it in the company of people I trusted to keep me in one piece for more than five minutes wasn’t. And the feeling of doing it with Thomas’ hand in mine, well . . . That was just about the best thing in all the worlds in all the dimensions there are. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

17 " By the time he rolled away from me, panting and staring at the ceiling, I was no longer a stranger in that once-familiar country; I was back where I belonged. We both were. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

18 " No one ever really dies. We live on in the memories of our children, and it’s down to us to make sure that we’re remembered kindly. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

19 " If my choice was a perfect lie or continuing to run long after my quest turned hopeless, I’d take the lie. Maybe that makes me weak, but I honestly don’t care. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)

20 " Meaning they have a rotting universe latched onto their own, poisoning it by inches.” “Yes. Not much to eat there if you take each other off the menu, and they don’t seem too inclined to do that.” “Right.” Thomas shook his head, eyes hard. “I don’t want to know why you had to know that. I feel that the story of your life while we’ve been apart is going to drive me to drink. "

― Seanan McGuire , Spelunking Through Hell (Incryptid, #11)