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A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9) QUOTES

A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I’d gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

2 " Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

3 " I just feel like we’re starting to interfere on a level that’s sort of . . . extreme.” “But that’s what heroes do. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

4 " I just wasn’t sure it was a good idea to approach heroing the way I’d always approached detecting. Can you really shake the world until justice falls out? "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

5 " Just thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve managed to wind up covered in blood,” I said. “It’s like a new trend. A blood-free trend. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

6 " Even when she slept, she tossed and turned and squirmed, like she was secretly a hurricane forced into a girl-body and told to exist as best she could among people who had no idea what it meant to secretly be a weather pattern. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

7 " What is wrong? Is this related to the notice I received from Queen Windermere that a war was being beta-tested, and might be cleared for release? I do not have time to allow my coders to be slaughtered. It seems very inefficient. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

8 " I’m not sorry," said Quentin. "One of them tried to take my throat away from me. With its teeth. I’m not you. I need my throat. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

9 " Be sure you include a gift card for Tim Hortons,” he said. “That’s how we say ‘sorry for killing your firstborn son’ in Canada. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

10 " You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

11 " It was like Rhys had ordered the whole thing from Castles R Us, and then never bothered to swing by the local Bed, Battlements, and Beyond for the accessories he’d need to make it believable. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

12 " Sometimes romance is of less importance than the feeling of being absolutely safe: of knowing that nothing and no one can hurt you, because the person who loves you most in all the world will destroy them if they try. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

13 " Nameless McBitchypants "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

14 " Children of Maeve reproducing with children of Titania wasn’t like apples mixing with oranges—it was more like apples mixing with cheese graters, or rainbows with hardware stores. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

15 " Change sucks. No one’s going to argue about that. Change is hard and painful and sometimes we wind up losing things we wanted to keep forever. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

16 " your entire life has been a succession of things you were not equipped for, and while you may have, as you so charmingly say, ‘screwed some of them up,’ you have, in the main, come through spectacularly well. You are surrounded by allies, and each of us is, in our own way, uniquely suited to the challenges ahead—as are you, or you wouldn’t be here. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

17 " May’s style was best described as “Jem and the Holograms meets Rainbow Brite. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

18 " Sometimes I think Faerie goes to war as much because we can’t find anyone who’d rather talk things out as for any other reason. Diplomacy is not a valued skill among the Courts. Most of our nobles would prefer to do the dance of manners and then slide a knife between someone’s ribs. It’s more fun than actually discussing trade sanctions and why it’s rude to kill your neighbors. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

19 " Each time I tell myself you have reached the summit of your strangeness, you find a way to climb still higher.” “Look at it this way: being married to me will never be boring. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)

20 " The bedroom was as opulently decorated as the front room, with a bed large enough to hold six, and a wardrobe that should by all rights have contained a doorway to Narnia, or at least the deeper lands of Faerie. "

― Seanan McGuire , A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9)