205 Quotes by Sarah Monette

I do not like children. I do not know how to speak to them. They frightened and confused me when I was a child myself, and they frighten and confuse me now that I am an adult.

Asking why the creature had chosen to give me its bone was pointless. My foolish and unwilling foray into necromancy had made me attractive to such things, as a magnetic is attractive to iron.

Well fuck me sideways 'til I cry

The picture that emerged from Mildred’s entries was of a pretty, charming, willful child who was accustomed to get her own way with the confidence of an empress.

Life on Mars would be awesome! Even single-celled life, although I admit that in my heart of hearts, I want it to be the barge-people of the canals.

The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars.