A review by mamap
When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire

I really enjoy Toby and the family she has created for herself - it's hard to care of other people - open yourself up to pain, but it also makes life sweeter, especially when you can see the other side of the story.

Toby is surprised with a. trip to Canada to finally get the wedding she's wanted. Quentin has to hid himself form his family as he's going home, but things are not all as they seem. Toby has to unravel another mystery and attempted assassination before she can "finally" get married.

p. 1. "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." Shakespeare, Hamlet

p.2. "Weird is what we do around here. Weird is the only way we now how to live."

p. 10. "The easiest way to solve a mystery is to run straight toward it and knock it into as may pieces as possible."

p.15. "Always horrifying drama. In this house, horrifying drama is never a sometimes food."

p. 51. "Faerie's relationship to physics is often casual at best, and sometimes it consists of Faerie promising to call when physics knows it never will."

p.86. "Emotions can be contradictory is what I'm saying."

p.92. "Standing on ceremony means you're never on solid ground ...."

p. 109. "Why anyone would theme a hotel on 'smell faintly like pancakes at all times' as the Canadian dream, I didn't know, but hey, who am I to judge? My house is furnished in early thrift sore, with a side order of don't these people know that recycling is a thing, and you don't have to keep every single scrap of paper forever."

p. 116 "Grief is a weight that you can't put down, only transmute into other things, and once it lands on your shoulders you have to wait for time's erosion to lift it all. We're all Atlas, in a way. We carry the sins of our past, and al the things we think we've lost, and we might as well do it forever for as long as it can seem to last."

p. 137. "There are days when I think Dochas Sidhe aren't designed so much to manipulate the workings of the blood as we ar etc cause problems everywhere we go. It would make a lot of things make a lot more sense if that were the case."

p. 140. "Some moments are meant to be savored, to preserved."

p.303 "We live in stories, but we're not stories, and sometimes the best endings are the ones no one sees coming."