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Quotes from Where the Drowned Girls Go — Seanan McGuire

born 1978 United States

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This wasn’t the first time Cora had met people who thought their ideas about how the world should be were the only right ones.

Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)

We can’t make things that happened not have happened by wishing that they hadn’t.

Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)

“Heroism is addictive. Maybe that’s why it sounds so much like ‘heroin.’”

Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)

You look like the kind of girl who might know stuff about lichen.

Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)

“If they’re being locked, they’re being locked. We don’t have a key.”
“Sometimes, you don’t need a key,” said Sumi. Her smile verged on feral. “Sometimes a crowbar is good enough.”

Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)

“My name is Lord of the Forest,” said the stag.
Regan nodded. Every stag she’d ever met had been named Lord of the Forest, even when there was another stag only a few feet away. Deer didn’t understand irony.

Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)

There would be time to grab something from the dining hall before she had to go to English class. The thought of having to analyze the poetry of Emily Dickinson without calories was enough to make her want to cry. Why adults constantly wanted to know what centuries-old poems meant was beyond her. Shouldn’t someone have found the right answer by now? Or at least an answer good enough to accept?

Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Seanan McGuire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.