“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
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“These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from The Rescue
“It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love.
It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him.
What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.
Now even that had flickered out.
How long I stood frozen there, I cannot say. If I was ever going to move again, someone else was going to have to furnish the reason for moving.
Somebody did.
A policeman watched me for a while, and then he came over to me, and he said, "You alright?"
Yes," I said.
You've been standing here a long time," he said.
I know," I said.
You waiting for somebody?" he said.
No," I said.
Better move on, don't you think?" he said.
Yes, sir," I said.
And I moved on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Mother Night
“One Monday, just for sport, Charlie grabbed an eggplant that a spectacularly wizened granny was going for, but instead of twisting it out of his hand with some mystic kung fu move as he expected, she looked him in the eye and shook her head - just a jog, barely perceptible really - it might have been a tic, but it was the most eloquent of gestures. Charlie read it as saying: O White Devil, you do not want to purloin that purple fruit, for I have four thousand years of ancestors and civilization on you; my grandparents built the railroads and dug the silver mines, and my parents survived the earthquake, the fire, and a society that outlawed even being Chinese; I am mother to a dozen, grandmother to a hundred, and great-grandmother to a legion; I have birthed babies and washed the dead; I am history and suffering and wisdom; I am a Buddha and a dragon; so get your fucking hand off my eggplant before you lose it.”
― Christopher Moore, quote from A Dirty Job
“Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventually I'll end up back on those old tracks, because there's nowhere left to go. Maybe. Maybe not. You have to take the risk, don't you”
― Paula Hawkins, quote from The Girl on the Train
“The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into his soul.
It had indeed been an error.
It had been late one night-- of course.
It had been a difficult day-- of course.
There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system-- of course.
And he had, of course, been slightly drunk.
In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from Life, the Universe and Everything
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