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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.

Jonathan Maberry

Wise, Men, Walking Dead

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

Jonathan Maberry

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

Jonathan Maberry

Body, Weapons, Way

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

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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.

Jonathan Maberry

Morning, Thinking, Looks

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

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But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

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Powerful, Hot, Sometimes

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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When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

Jonathan Maberry

Knives, Needs, Earth

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.913, Simon and Schuster

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That's stupid." "That's people.

Jonathan Maberry

Stupid, People

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A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.

Jonathan Maberry

Heart, Elements, Haunting

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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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He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.

Jonathan Maberry

Hurt, Children, Echoes

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

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Past, Knowing, Survival

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.81, 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.

Jonathan Maberry

Wall, Heart, Civilization

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

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It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

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Stars, Character, Tragedy

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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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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Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

Jonathan Maberry

Revenge, Spirit, Infection

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Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.

Jonathan Maberry

Girl, Eye, Looks

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.

Jonathan Maberry

Gorgeous, Tales, Spun

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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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...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.

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Hurt, Mean, Air

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

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Book, Eyebrows, Stuff

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

Jonathan Maberry

Thinking, Expression, Nuts

Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.

Jonathan Maberry

Guests, Santa, Might

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Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

Jonathan Maberry

Hate, Years, Joy

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.680, Simon and Schuster

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