“I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“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.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?” asked Becks. “Is it a union requirement or something?”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“I suggest it’s time we head off to see the Wizard. The wonderful Wizard of Jesus We Are All So Fucked.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“Then you know why I'm not in the mood for sunshine and puppies." I paused. "That expression makes no sense. Why the hell would I ever be in the mood for puppies?"
"Shaun—"
"I could go with sunshine, though. Sunshine is useful. It should really be 'sunshine and shotguns.' Something you'd actually be happy about."
"Shaun—”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“...even saying good-bye isn’t enough. There’s always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There’s always going to be that one missing piece.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“You know what? Fuck it. Just fuck it. The Rising didn't manage to wipe out the human race, it just made us turn into even bigger assholes than we were before. Hear that, mad science? You failed. You were supposed to kill us all, and instead you turned us into monsters.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“How am I coping? I miss George and the goddamn world is still full of zombies, that's how. Everything else...
Everything else is just details. And those don't really matter to me anymore.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I’m pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“I think I just had a minor psychotic episode or maybe a breakdown or something, but it's cool; I'm feeling basically okay now," I replied, closing the van doors. "You?”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
“The Masons may not have taught me much about how to treat a guest, but they taught me not to shoot at them unless it was absolutely necessary.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Deadline
Mira Grant
Born place: in Martinez, California, The United States
Born date January 5, 1978
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“One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Assassin's Apprentice
“It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.”
― David Nicholls, quote from One Day
“Is that what you think of when you think of me?" Gogol asks him. "Do I remind you of that night"?
"Not at all", his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. "You remind me of everything that followed.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, quote from The Namesake
“For life today in America is based on the premise of ever-widening circles of contact and communication. It involves not only family demands, but community demands, national demands, international demands on the good citizen, through social and cultural pressures, through newspapers, magazines, radio programs, political drives, charitable appeals, and so on. My mind reels in it, What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. It puts the trapeze artist to shame. Look at us. We run a tight rope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now!”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, quote from Gift from the Sea
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Cosmos
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