“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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“. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. Then the shouting and the struggling, and the onslaught that was made on the defenceless porter! Then scaling him, with chairs for ladders, to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round the neck, pommel his back and kick his legs in irrepressible affection! The shouts of wonder and delight with wich the development of every package was received! The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy! They are indescribable alike. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlor, and by one stair at a time up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth
“از بین رفتن ناامیدی خیلی وقتها منجر می شود به قدم گذاشتن در راههای جنون آمیز.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, quote from Address Unknown
“من دیگر آن آدمی نیستم که دو سال پیش بودم. حالا اگر به من میگفتند اجازه دارم یک انسان را به عنوان همنشین آرزو کنم، حتماً دلم میخواست زن سالمندی باشد، یک زن زیرک و شوخطبع که بتوانم هر از گاهی به او بخندم. هنوز خیلی دلم هوای خنده میکند. ولی حتماً او هم قبل از من میمرد و من دوباره تنها میشدم و وضع بدتر از وقتی میشد که هرگز با او آشنا نشده بودم. در آن صورت باید بهای گزافی برای خندیدن میپراختم. بعد هم مجبور میشدم به یاد او هم باشم و این دیگر بیش از حد تحملم بود. اکنون هم تنها پوست نازکی هستم که به روی کوهی از خاطرات کشیده باشند. دیگر بس است. اگر این پوست شکافته شود، چه بر سر من خواهد آمد؟”
― Marlen Haushofer, quote from The Wall
“My God, John. The king has begun to shoot his subjects.”
― Jeff Shaara, quote from Rise to Rebellion
“His full name is Ignazio Vitale, although once, not so long ago, he urged me to call him
Naz. And it was Naz who charmed me, who won me over and made me melt. It wasn't until
later that I got to know the true Ignazio, and by the time I met Vitale, it was far too late to just
walk away.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Monster in His Eyes
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