Jonathan Maberry Quotes

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• I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

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  Character, Men, True Evil

  Jonathan Maberry (2015). “The Joe Ledger Series, Books 1-3: Patient Zero, The Dragon Factory, The King of Plagues”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

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  Decision, May, Moments

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• Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

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  Knowing, People, Sparks

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.

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  Wise, Fall, Men

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.682, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

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  Hurt, Mean, People

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.684, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

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  Eye, Mind, Seems

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

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  Alive, Want, Might

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

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  Done, Weapons, Used

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

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  Long, People, Generosity

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• They won the war but lost the peace.

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  War, Lost

  Jonathan Maberry (2010). “Rot & Ruin”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

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  Life And Death, Decision, Luck

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.

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  Heart, People, Choices

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• Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

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  Fighting, Allies, Heat

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?

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  Pain, Gentleman, Monsters

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• There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

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  Stars, Moon, Light

  Jonathan Maberry (2010). “Rot & Ruin”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

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  Lying, People, Sometimes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

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  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

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  Revenge, Spirit, Infection

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• Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

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  Monsters, Carrie

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.

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  Monday, Night, World

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

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  Crush, Hurt, Jobs

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

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  Doors, Closure, Ready

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

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  Wall, Heart, Civilization

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.437, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.

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  Powerful, Sometimes, Shame

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?” “I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.” It didn’t.

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  Morning, Thinking, Looks

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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