Mira Grant Quotes - Page 6

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• It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.

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  Lying, Dark, Hands

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• The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.

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  Winning, Should Have, Zombie

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• Do we have to have the 'don't lie to the telepath' talk again? It won't take long. I say 'don't lie to the telepath, it never works,' you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit.

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  Lying, Long, Don't Lie

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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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• 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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• 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 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,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?

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  Religious, Moving, Shining

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• Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

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  Running, Needs

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• My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

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  Long, People, Upset

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• Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too.​

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  People, Worry, Rose

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• Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​

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  Past, Smell, Weakness

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• She laughed like she'd just invented laughter.​

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  Laughter, Laughed

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• My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

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  Morning, Home, Thinking

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• One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

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  Men, Earthquakes, Raw Materials

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• Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

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  Girlfriend, Drinking, Guy

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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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• Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

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  Lines, May, Causes

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• I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.

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  Cat, Tybalt, Make Sense

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• Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.

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  Average, Practice, Giving

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• I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

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  Kings, Challenges, Kitchen

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.

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  Mother, Smoking, Pot

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• I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

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  Thinking, Hands, Should

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• Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.

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  Thinking, Talking, Differences

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• I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

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  Annoyed, Facts, Immortal

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