Top 198 Quotes & Sayings by Mira Grant - Page 3

Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start.

Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked.

There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.

We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.

I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit. (Shaun Mason)

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always".

I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe.

How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That’s the way it is for everyone.

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.

Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.

Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious discovery of pocket lint. It's impressive, but I'd rather watch him move. There's something wonderful about the way he lets go, becoming all energy and excitement as he outlines what's coming next. Maybe it's geeky for a girl my age to admit she still loves her brother. I don't care. I love him, and one day I'll bury him, and until then, I'm going to be grateful that I'm allowed to watch him talk.

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet.

That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?

He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.

I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.

Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.