Mira Grant Quotes - Page 4

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• Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

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  Doing Nothing, Sometimes, Habit

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.124, Hachette UK

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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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• Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.

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  Brother, Years, Ideas

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Dream, Home, Trying

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• If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

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  Years, Australia, Curls

  Mira Grant (2016). “Rise - The Complete Newsflesh Collection”, p.177, 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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• Some people live where they work. Others just visit.​

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  People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.

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  Father, Grandma, Needs

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• October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after ‘tending to some business at the Queen’s Court.’ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, it’s your manners. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

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  Queens, Sleep, Silence

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• Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything. I've got mine. Do you?

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  Life, Lying, Thinking

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• You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

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  Sleep, Silence, Exotic

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• Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?

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  Morning, Wall, Princess

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• If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.

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  Moose, Gears, Want

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.83, Hachette UK

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

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  Ideas, Safety, Cop

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.188, Hachette UK

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