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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

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Believe, Truth Is, Willing

Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.52, 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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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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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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Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

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Suffering, Easier, Endure

Jonathan Maberry (2010). “Rot & Ruin”, p.136, 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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She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.

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Hurt, Remove

Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

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Body, Weapons, Way

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Assassin's Code: A Joe Ledger Novel”, p.171, Macmillan

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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

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Choices, Hatred, Guilt

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.

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Wise, Men, Walking Dead

Jonathan Maberry (2014). “Fire & Ash”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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World, Buffets, Riot

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.1170, Simon and Schuster

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