“Okay," I said slowly, "but what the hell would you mate a horse with to get a unicorn, because I don't see horses and narwhales doing the dirty boogie.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY “On the Blue Water,” Esquire, April 1936”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“Nerves were on hair triggers, and if my virgin aunt had stepped out from behind those crates with a puppy in one hand and a baby in the other my guys would have capped her.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“It's refreshing to be insane. Just as it's liberating to be aware of it.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“It doesn't exactly fill me with pride."
"For what, being a white man?"
"For being a carbon based life-form.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“The value of choice is not in the size of the action but in its effect”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Pilgrimage
“Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...”
― Thomas Harris, quote from Hannibal Rising
“I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.”
― Brian Jacques, quote from Taggerung
“I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Woman on the Edge of Time
“They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being.”
― Steven Pinker, quote from The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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