Quotes from Deadline

“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

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“The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! It 's a ghost!"
Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. numbers exist only in the mind. I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. it's that only that gets me. science is only in your mind too, it's just that that doesn't make it bad. or ghosts either."
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Law of logic, of mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts."
...we see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.”
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“Think of cocaine. In its natural form, as coca leaves, it's appealing, but not to an extent that it usually becomes a problem. But refine it, purify it, and you get a compound that hits your pleasure receptors with an unnatural intensity. That's when it becomes addictive.

Beauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks - call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex - and in our natural environment, it was useful to have. But take a person with one-in-a-million skin and bone structure, add professional makeup and retouching, and you're no longer looking at beauty in its natural form. You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.

Biologists call this "supernormal stimulus" [...] Our beauty receptors receive more stimulation than they were evolved to handle; we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives.

How? The way any drug becomes a problem: by interfering with our relationships with other people. We become dissatisfied with the way ordinary people look because they can't compare to supermodels.”
― Ted Chiang, quote from Stories of Your Life and Others

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