Lost in the Moment and Found
Seanan McGuire
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You’re a child. If an adult hurt you, that’s on them, not on you. Being bruised doesn’t make you bad, unless you’re a peach, and even a bruised peach is good for making jam.”
“They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!”
“The great tale of her being shall be extended no more; she is gone to the Library where all of us must one day be Returned, and she will pay no overdue fines on her soul.”
“That was the fourth thing she lost: the belief that if something made her unhappy or uncomfortable, she could tell an adult who loved her and they would make everything better.”
“Being bruised doesn’t make you bad, unless you’re a peach, and even a bruised peach is good for making jam.”
“They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able.”
“Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people they were meant to be.”
“where she promptly forgot about it. Not in the casual way of forgetting things when they lack importance; no, this was a forgetting so profound that the thing forgotten might as well never have existed.”
“While all the Wayward Children books have dealt with heavy themes and childhood traumas, this one addresses an all-too-familiar monster: the one that lives in your own home. Themes of grooming and adult gaslighting are present in the early text. As a survivor of something very similar, I would not want to be surprised by these elements where I didn’t expect them. I just want to offer you this reassurance: Antsy runs. Before anything can actually happen, Antsy runs. Street penny sacrament; what are you looking for?”
“The mind is bad at holding on to terror,”
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Book Keywords:
anger, consequence, trust, children, shelter, choice, escape
