Quotes From "A Redrose Chain" By Seanan McGuire

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