Seanan McGuire Quotes

I guess you deal with what you get.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway

What can't be helped must be endured.

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

We cannot make great historical events, but must adapt ourselves to the natural course of things and limit ourselves to securing what is already ripe.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

There's just some things you can't change.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.