Luzie

“They told you to be quiet and constrained and obedient, didn’t they? That’s virtually the same thing. The doors want wild things. They want feral beasts in the skin of dutiful daughters—and you can’t sit here, with your neatly brushed hair and your tidy uniform and tell me you don’t know what it is to be feral. I know you too well for that.”
― Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go

“I don't have the vocabulary for this.”
“Most people don't, until they need it, and then they need the whole thing at once.”
― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

“Let that be the crime for which I am finally convicted: my father is not a good man, and I will not pretend he is, will not praise him in ways he has not earned and never will.”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found

“It's easy to go along with a system. It's harder to create one. You have to choose it, over and over, when you're building it.”
― Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found