InCryptid Chapter Quotes

This account posts the quotes from the beginning of each chapter of the InCryptid book series by Seanan McGuire. Each quote will include the Book Number, Book Title, and Chapter Number. Quotes are posted daily starting with the first quote from a book on the first day of the month. Check out the Book Archive page for post schedule. The InCryptid series is published by DAW Books (through 2024) and TOR Books (2025 onward), and is available at your local bookstore or library. This account is not affiliated with the author or publisher in any way. Header image created by dreamsofpdx on Instagram. Used with permission.

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Take care of your brother, Elsinore. He's little, he doesn't understand. I'll take care of you, and you take care of him.

Jane Harrington-Price

Story Title: We Sing It Anyway Included In: Butterfly Effects

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Welcome home, darling.

Enid Healy

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 27

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I do my best work in the encores.

Frances Brown

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 26

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It all adds up, in the end.

Evelyn Baker

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 25

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Bring her home.

Mary Dunlavy

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 24

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Love is a form of obsession, absolutely. And some of us never learned how to let go. Didn't much pay attention during the lessons on sharing, either.

Alice Healy

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 23

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While you're alive, you fight, little girl. You fight to stay that way. That's the only thing I'm ever going to ask from you. You have to fight.

Angela Baker

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 22

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I wasn't planning on becoming a mother. My own mother didn't give me very good examples to follow. But once I did, there was nothing I wouldn't do to protect my children. No matter what, I was going to be a better person than my mother was.

Jane Harrington-Price

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 21

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Sometimes there's nothing left to do but take a bow and leave the stage. The most powerful words in the world are all too frequently 'goodbye.'

Enid Healy

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 20

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Time may come where someone comes along and says they've got a claim on you from something they did without asking you first. You can be polite to them if you like, but you've got no obligation. They have no power over you.

Frances Brown

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 19

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The best thing about being adopted is knowing, with absolute certainty, that I was chosen by the people who raised me. They wanted me more than anything. The worst thing is not knowing who I might have been. That version of me died so I could be born.

Evelyn Baker

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 18

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There was a world before you existed, and there's still going to be a world after you're gone. But it's not going to be the same. Everything is different now, forever, because you were here.

Mary Dunlavy

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 17

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Not every choice I've made in my lifetime has been a good one. Some of them were pretty objectively bad. But they were my choices, and at the end of the day, I'm nothing more than the sum of them. They're what made me.

Alice Healy

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 16

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A child's a child. Species is the next best thing to irrelevant.

Angela Baker

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 15

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Never underestimate the power of gossip.

Jane Harrington-Price

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 14

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Any man who'd drug a lady's drink deserves to meet the sharp end of the shovel, preferably face-first. Self-defense is never a crime.

Enid Healy

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 13

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I don't have much. But what's mine is mine, and if you try to do it harm, well. You'll learn why I've never needed much, either. A lady can do a lot of damage when she's looking after everything that matters.

Frances Brown

Book Title: Butterfly Effects Book #: 15 Chapter: 12