Seanan McGuire Quotes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Anything that happens, happens.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.

People aren't always what you want them to be

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

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.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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'm a fatalist.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.