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Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5) QUOTES

Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5) QUOTES

1 " People always mean something. Sometimes what they mean is 'you can't be trusted to remember to be kind', and then I want to bury them up to their necks in marshmallow fluff, so they'll remember how I choose kindness every single day "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

2 " I will slice you open and spread you as evenly as a coat of jam across the shore. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

3 " I've never met anyone who was considered fully grown by their original society before they found their first door. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

4 " The world doesn't stop spinning because you're sad, and that's good; if it did, people would go around breaking hearts like they were sheets of maple sugar, just to keep the world exactly where it is. They'd make it out like it was a good thing, a few crying children in exchange for a peace that never falters or fades. We can be sad and we can be hurt and we can even be killed, but the world keeps turning, and the things we're supposed to do keep needing to be done. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

5 " No one should have to sit and suffer and pretend to be someone they’re not because it’s easier, or because no one wants to help them fix it. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

6 " Whoever said heroism was fair?" she asked. "It's the unfairest thing of all. 'Come, oh human child, and learn to swing a sword for the sake of people who've decided the thing you're best for is dying in their name.' We were lambs for the slaughter, all of us, and if we've survived, it's not because we're special. Come on. Let's be heroes one more time. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

7 " Hope is a vicious beast. It sinks in its claws and it doesn't let go. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

8 " New things are the best kind of magic there is. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

9 " Everyone is somebody’s bedtime story. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

10 " Sometimes heroism is pressing on when the ending is already preordained. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

11 " But he kept running. Sometimes, after all, that's what must be said to make a hero: the willingness to keep running even after it becomes clear that the entire exercise is doomed to failure. Sometimes heroism is pressing on when the ending is already preordained. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

12 " Clothes matter," he said, draping the vest over his arm and reaching for a pile of neatly folded blouses. "Clothes are part of how you learn to feel like yourself, and not someone who just happens to look like you. Don't you remember what it was like when someone else decided what you were going to wear? "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

13 " We can be sad and we can be hurt and we can even be killed, but the world keeps turning, and the things we're supposed to do keep needing to be done. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

14 " This is terrible," said Sumi brightly. "I mean, we knew it was going to be terrible when we followed a mad scientist and her dead girlfriend to a horrifying murder world, but this is bonus terrible. This is the awful sprinkles on the sundae of doom. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

15 " I know, I know, panic is fun, but sometimes revenge is better," she said. "Choose revenge. Choose better. I brought you gloves. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

16 " Sumi was Sumi. Spending time with her was like trying to form a close personal relationship with a cloud of butterflies. Pretty -- dazzling, even -- but not exactly companionable. And some of the butterflies had knives, and that was where the metaphor collapsed. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

17 " My name's Christopher. I was a friend of Jack's before she went back to the Moors. I mean, not really. Jack doesn't have friends, she has minions who haven't figured out their place in the grand scheme of things. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

18 " Every monster has its natural counterbalance. Vampires and mad scientists are well-matched enough to keep the peace, even if it's sometimes kept in pieces. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

19 " Kade winced. "You're angry."
"A little bit, yes. I understand wanting to know what your allies are capable of, but the fact that I've been damaged doesn't make me broken, and you don't need to behave as if it does. This is my home, my world, and I'm going to fight to get it back, just as hard as Jack will. Harder, maybe. She'll always be a newcomer here. She loves her land, and she'll protect it, but this is where I was born. The Moon has known my first breath, all three times I've taken it, and She loves me all the same. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

20 " Sometimes heroism is pressing on when the ending is already predestined... Sometimes a hero has to fall. "

― Seanan McGuire , Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)