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The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?

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Law, Physics, Happens

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...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

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Reality, Needs, Make Sense

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This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

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Lying, Opportunity, Simple

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And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.

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Safety, Coward, World

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People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.

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People, Want, Noise

Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.7, Hachette UK

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It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason

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Girl, Boys, Mad

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I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

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Mother, Kids, Son

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Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?” asked Becks. “Is it a union requirement or something?

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Media, Evil, Needs

Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.170, Hachette UK

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We have to burn brightly. We can’t burn forever

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Forever

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May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

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Looks, May, Today

Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.23, Hachette UK

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The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.

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Children, Night, Play

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Some people live where they work. Others just visit.

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People

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A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough.

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Mean, Sunday, Men

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Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

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Hysteria, Forever, Energy

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I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

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Nice, Knowing, Ruined

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You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

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Sweet, Nice, Night

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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.

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Home, Glasses, Balls

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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.

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Dream, Thinking, Ponds

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

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Viruses, World, Patient

Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.360, Hachette UK

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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.

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Three, Lessons, Said

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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.

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Wall, Men, Risk

Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.111, Hachette UK

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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

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Light, Three, Nimble

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

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Walking Dead, Tables, Dinner

Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.138, Hachette UK

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There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

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People, Black, Passionate

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Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.

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Pseudonyms, Grants

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