11 Inspiring Quotes from Every Heart a Doorway (by Seanan McGuire)

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Every Heart a Doorway Quotes

Doors opened everywhere. Maybe one day, the children of this world who had gone to that world to save themselves would see a door that didn’t fit right with the walls around it, something with a doorknob made of a moon, or a knocker that winked. Maybe they could still go home

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


None of this is real, my dear. Not this house, not this conversation, not those shoes you’re wearing–which are several years out of style if you’re trying to reacclimatize yourself to the ways of your peers, and are not proper mourning shoes if you’re trying to hold fast to your recent past–and not either one of us. ‘Real’ is a four-letter-word, and I’ll thank you to use it as little as possible while you live under my roof.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


You’re nobody’s rainbow. You’re nobody’s princess. You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


Hope means you keep on holding to things that won’t ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there’s nothing left.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


Hope means you keep holding on to things that won’t ever be so again.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


For us, places we went were home. We didn’t care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn’t have to pretend to be something we weren’t. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


This isn’t a place for lies or pretending everything’s all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn’t be here. Now. Where did you go?

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


There was still something unfinished around her eyes; she wasn’t done yet. She was a story, not an epilogue. And if she chose to narrate her own life one word at a time as she descended the stairs to meet her newest arrival, that wasn’t hurting anyone. Narration was a hard habit to break, after all. Sometimes it was all a body had.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


Time resumed. Time had a way of doing that.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


You want to go back, and so you hold on to the habits you learned while you were traveling, because it’s better than admitting the journey’s over.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


Why does Eleanor let you have that much acid?” he asked. “Why would you want that much acid? You don’t need that much acid.””Except that it appears I do, since I have just enough to dissolve a human body, and we have a human body in need of dissolving, ” said Jack. “Everything happens for a reason. And Eleanor didn’t ‘let’ me have this much acid. I sort of collected it on my own. For a rainy day.””What were you expecting it to rain?” said Christopher. “Bears?

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway


I think the rules where different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn’t care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes.

— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway