Seanan McGuire Quotes

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.

Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

I can’t imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

I'm still not sure I didn't die

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

We live in a bewildering world.

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel. These generals don’t even know where the tunnel is.

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

When I got out of Job Corps, I was an empty shell. I didn't know what to do with myself.

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on