Skip to content

“Back where I come from, mothers and fathers live together most of the time. Unless they’re divorced.”
“What’s ‘divorced’ mean?”
“It means they were married and now they’re not anymore, so their kids get double Christmas.”

— Seanan McGuire Across the Green Grass Fields (2021)

Another quote →

More quotes by Seanan McGuire

There are moments that change everything, and once things have been changed, they do not change back.

Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)

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

In an Absent Dream (2019)

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)

Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love.

Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017)

If your friends would stop wanting you around because you’re not exactly like them, they’re not very good friends.

Across the Green Grass Fields (2021)

All Seanan McGuire quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Seanan McGuire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.