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In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) QUOTES

In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) QUOTES

1 " She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

2 " If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

3 " There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

4 " You forgot that sometimes, fair value comes from change, and death, and sacrifice. You can't have everything and give fair value. You can't stop your clock and expect to stay a part of the world. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

5 " The books were in no particular order, and Lundy found the process of sorting them remarkably soothing, involving, as it did, a strange sort of scavenger hunt through the entire shack. Books had been used to prop up tables and level out shelves; they were piled on surfaces where books had no business being and tucked under the edge of the thin mattress of the Archivist's bed. In the case of books that had become load-bearing, Lundy used her school ruler to carefully note their heights and went searching for rocks or pieces of scrap wood that would do the job as well, if not better. In the case of books left too near to water or exposed to the air, she rolled her eyes and whisked them away to literary safety. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

6 " If anyone had asked Katherine Lundy, who was happier these days going by her last name, (...) she would've said being 10 was substentially harder than being 8.
And that she would be perfectly happy to go backward, returning to a time where her femininity had been an attribute rather than an expectation. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

7 " Enjoy yourself. There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

8 " Children are capable of grasping complex ideas long before most people give them credit for, wrapping them in a soothing layer of nonsense and illogical logic. To be a child is to be a visitor from another world muddling your way through the strange rules of this one, where up is always up, even when it would make more sense for it to be down, or backward, or sideways. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

9 " She discovered the pure joy of reading for pleasure, and was rarely - if ever - seen without a book in her hand. Even in slumber, she was often to be found clutching a volume with one slender hand, her fingers wrapped right around its spine, as if she feared to wake into a world where all books had been forgotten and removed, and this book might become the last she had to linger over. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

10 " Sometimes 'fair' is bigger than just you. Sometimes ‘fair’ has to think about what’s best for everyone. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

11 " Following the rules didn't make you a good person, just like breaking them didn't make you a bad one, but it could make you an invisible person, and invisible people got to do as they liked. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

12 " Let us speak, for a moment, on the matter of sisters. They can be enemies to fight or companions to lean upon: they can, at times, be strangers. They are not required to be friends, or to have involvement in one another's lives, or to be anything more than strangers united by the circumstances of their birth. Still, there is a magic in the word "sister," a magic which speaks of shared roots and hence shared branches, of a certain ease that is always to be pursued, if not always to be found. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

13 " In the way of bookish children, she carried her books into trees and along the banks of chuckling creeks, weaving her way along their slippery shores with the sort of grace that belongs only to bibliophiles protecting their treasures. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

14 " Books were precious things, meant to be treated well, both because they deserved it and because if she didn't treat them well, her parents might stop buying them for her. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

15 " Reality, it must sadly be said, has a way of complicating things, even things we might believe could never be that complicated. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

16 " What’s the Goblin Market?”
“It is a place where dreamers go when they don’t fit in with the dreams their homes think worth dreaming. Doors lead here. Perhaps you found one. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

17 " IT CAN BE EASY, when hearing about someone else’s adventures in a far-off, magical land, to say “I would never choose the mundane world over the fantastical. I would run into rivers of rainbow as fast as my legs would carry me, and I would never once look back.” It is so often easy, when one has the luxury of being sure a thing will never happen, to be equally sure of one’s answers. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

18 " Your name is your heart, and you don’t give your heart away. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

19 " Mysteries in books were the best kind. The real world was absolutely full of boring mysteries, questions that never got answered and lost things that never got found. That wasn't allowed, in books. In books, mysteries were always interesting and exciting, packed with daring and danger, and in the end, the good guys found the clues and the bad guys got their comeuppance. Best of all, nothing was ever lost forever. If something mattered enough for the author to write it down, it would always come back before the last page was turned. It would always come back. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

20 " Home always shrinks in times of absence, always bleeds away some of its majesty, because what is home, after all, apart from the place one returns to when the adventure is over? Home is an end to glory, a stopping point when the tale is done. "

― Seanan McGuire , In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)