“The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing.
I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“This is the truth: We are a nation accustomed to being afraid. If I’m being honest, not just with you but with myself, it’s not just the nation, and it’s not just something we’ve grown used to. It’s the world, and it’s an addiction. People crave fear. Fear justifies everything. Fear makes it okay to have surrendered freedom after freedom, until our every move is tracked and recorded in a dozen databases the average man will never have access to. Fear creates, defines, and shapes our world, and without it, most of us would have no idea what to do with ourselves. Our ancestors dreamed of a world without boundaries, while we dream new boundaries to put around our homes, our children, and ourselves. We limit our potential day after day in the name of a safety that we refuse to ever achieve. We took a world that was huge with possibility, and we made it as small as we could.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything.
I've got mine. Do you?”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Are you ever not a pessimist?"
"Sometimes. But then I wake up.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“My father has always had just one piece of advice about zombies and ammunition, one he’s drilled into my head enough times that it’s managed to stick: When you have one bullet left and there’s no visible way out of the shit you’re standing in, save it for yourself. It’s better than the alternative.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put your hand in the alligator,” while terror says, “Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Failure to die is always appreciated.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
“He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.”
― Mira Grant, quote from Feed
Mira Grant
Born place: in Martinez, California, The United States
Born date January 5, 1978
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“No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.”
― James Surowiecki, quote from The Wisdom of Crowds
“I just wanted to say something about him, to shoot his spirit out over the airwaves and see what it will do. Maybe he'll come to one of you and give you something you need. Help you get rid of the blues, or keep the sun from catching you crying. A lot of you believe in ghosts. I've heard you say so.”
― Natalie Standiford, quote from How to Say Goodbye in Robot
“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., quote from Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“The officers entered the Clinic with Noda. Passing through the mouth-like lobby, they proceeded along endlessly winding corridors and stairways lit only by red night lights, like a journey through the innards of a body, before at last finding themselves on the fourth floor. Yamaji’s research had already told them that Inui lived on the fourth floor, but it would have been too dangerous to use the elevator. Elevators commonly appear in dreams as symbols of sexual desires. As such, they thought it highly probable that the elevator would be used for an attack from the subconscious.”
― Yasutaka Tsutsui, quote from Paprika
“Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, quote from A Season in Hell
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