Seanan McGuire Quotes

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.

I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.

By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.

And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

That's my mission: to make you feel something.

To see your dad cry is like - It's different than to see your mom cry, you know?

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day.

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.

Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake...somewhere.

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.