“Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“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”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“Fuck survivor's guilt. I'm not supposed to be the guilty one here. The people who made me the last man standing... they're the guilty ones. And they're the ones who should be afraid.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“Fuck it. Let's blow some shit up." - Shaun Mason”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“Last guy I was interested in turned out to be an incestuous necrophiliac," she said. "So no, not currently dating, and definitely not doing any more shopping in the 'sociopath' category”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“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.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said.
“Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“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.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“The dangerous thing about truth is the way it changes depending on how you're looking at it. One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit.
(Shaun Mason)”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“So hell, maybe we just killed the last grizzly in the world. I'd feel bad about that if it hadn't been an infected zombie bear that wanted to eat my delicious flesh.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“Seriously, that woman is so much crazy crammed into a small space that she's practically a crazy singularity.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“They can't reproduce?" said Shaun incredulously. "That's your big solution? They won't fuck? Did none of you people ever see Jurassic Park?”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do about what's right or wrong or just plain a bad idea.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“In the end, no one noticed when protection turned into imprisonment, or when 'for the good of the people' turned into 'for the good of the people in power.' It was all baby steps, all the way.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
“Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?”
― Mira Grant, quote from Blackout
Mira Grant
Born place: in Martinez, California, The United States
Born date January 5, 1978
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“What is it that we search for? Every child knows the answer. We search for love. Love is our shelter. Love is our purpose. Love is why we are here.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Hero's Tale
“Meaning, values, morality, and the good life must relate to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures—and, in our case, must lawfully depend upon events in the world and upon states of the human brain. Rational, open-ended, honest inquiry has always been the true source of insight into such processes. Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”
― Sam Harris, quote from The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“But chains made out of blood and memory were a thousand times more difficult to sever than those made of steel, and the past could overtake a person if she wasn’t careful"
"The day had begun, cool and clear and absolutely impossible to avoid"
"Being a physician is like working on a machine that keeps breaking down, time after time"
"Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud"
"Love was like that, like a dream you didn’t quite understand, one in which you didn’t necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you"
"adolescence is what makes the person”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Probable Future
“the ultimate truth about oppression: that it works by turning its victims against each other instead of against their oppressors. He”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg
“I rolled my eyes. Of course. Whatever you wanted to see, but you couldn't see it very well, there were lots of commercials, and it never quite hit the spot. Television in hell”
― Sarah Fine, quote from Sanctum
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