“She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill zone even while firing guns from both hands during a cartwheel.
"You look fucking ridiculous," she told herself.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“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?”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“Yippie ki-yay and all that shit"
- Desdemona Fox”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“She knew a couple of writers. They were always broke.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure with evil.
-SOPHOCLES”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“Goat made no move to get out. "Billy...this is nuts."
"Yeah, well we left 'sane and normal' behind the first time Volker said 'zombie”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“And that made him wonder if a person who is forced into bad situations over and over again when they’re too weak or helpless to do anything about it will eventually make bad choices of their own simply because they’ve become habituated to them.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“The economy blows, or don't you read the papers?"
"Who reads the fucking papers? News is free on the internet.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“She agreed with Mark Twain that golf was a “good walk spoiled.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“Who’d play her in the movie?” “The shark from Jaws,” muttered Trout.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“watch Die Hard films until the day started making sense again.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“Dez, on the other hand, was pure backcountry Pennsylvania; a blue-eyed blonde who could have been a model for fitness equipment if not for what JT personally viewed as an overactive redneck gene.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“This wasn’t about who liked who; this was a human being who did not deserve what happened to him.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“Every writer he ever met was a drunk,”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“When he heard politicians use the phrase “in the best interests of the American people” he knew that it was always a profit-based decision.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
“Yippie ki-yay and all that shit.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Dead of Night
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“Just as ants do when their nest is disturbed, we return, survey the damage, and then without hesitation immediately get to work rebuilding.”
― Camron Wright, quote from The Rent Collector
“Wow, did Tim Burton binge on Laffy Taffy and vomit all over this place or what?” Jordan whispered.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“Your head will be fine,” said Miri. “It’s your neck you should worry about.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Palace of Stone
“Annie, last year.... That day in the yard.... I made a mistake not strapping on a gun the minute I found you, and it wasn't that I was against marrying you, it was that I was against letting them make me do anything. So they almost killed Foxface and threatened to shoot the horses, and I gave in. But they could have shot everything in five miles to pieces and couldn't have made me crawl."
A tremor passed through her, but he continued. "That was last year. Now if somebody pointed a gun at you, really could hurt you, I'd crawl on my belly or my knees or do anything else. Maybe that's part of why loving is frightening. I'd rather pay the price and have you than be invincible because I have nothing.”
― Ellen O'Connell, quote from Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
“In the moonlight David saw that Thoresby had become very peculiar indeed. Figs nestled among the leaves of beech-trees. Elder-trees were bowed down with pomegranates. Ivy was almost torn from walls by the weight of ripe blackberries growing upon it. Anything which had ever possessed any sort of life had sprung fruitfulness. Ancient, dried up frames had become swollen with sap and we putting out twigs, leaves, blossoms and fruit. Door-frames and doors were so distorted that bricks had been pushed out of place and some houses were in danger of collapsing altogether. The cart in the middle of the high street was a grove of silver birches. Its broken wheels put forth briar roses and nightingales sang on it.”
― Susanna Clarke, quote from The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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