Sarah Monette Quotes

“ 'So what happens next?'

'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.'

'Like any other story, then.' ”
― Sarah Monette, The Tempering of Men

“The ritual worked. That is the most ghastly thing. I hold no particular brief for the rationality of the world, but that this vile obscenity should actually have the power to bring back the dead seems to me not merely a sign that the world is not rational, but that it is in fact entirely insane, a murderous lunatic gibbering in the corner of a padded cell.”
― Sarah Monette, The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth