Middlegame Quotes

“She doesn't really understand the difference between teachers and professors, except that professors know so much more than teachers. Professors are like wizards: they create the universe.”
― Seanan McGuire

“The math would be true, and that's all she's ever asked from the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“He feels the gold in his own bones respond, reaching for the gold in Dodger's, yearning to reunite.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“She's going to change the world, remake it in a better image than the one it's made in now, and no one's going to stop her. Not her parents and not her teachers and certainly not the Alchemical Congress”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“I like selfpetting kitties.”
― Sean McGuire, Two Toes and the Magic Pack: A Story of Wolves and Humans

“She's not going to bleed for long. She doesn't, no pun intended, have it in her. And when she stops breathing, so does he.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“If Dodger were awake, she'd happily tell him exactly how much of her blood is on the floor. She'd look at the mess around them. She'd calculate the surface area and volume of the liquid as easily as taking a breath, and she'd turn it into a concrete number, something accurate to the quarter ounce. She'd think she was being comforting, even if the number she came up with meant "I'm leaving you." Even if it meant "there is no coming back from this."
Even if it meant goodbye.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“If this is where it ends for one of them, let this be where it ends for both of them. Let this be where it ends for good. No one—not even him— walks the improbable road alone.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“There's so much blood, and it doesn't matter that he knows the words, all the words, for everything. The numbers are taking her away. He can't reach them without her.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame