Top 100 Jonathan Maberry Quotes
#1. Rape is, to me, no different than murder. It kills a part of the victim's soul.
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#2. She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.
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#3. Do you work for Starbox? If so, I can't say I dig your new marketing strategy.
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#5. A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.
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#6. Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.
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#7. Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!
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#9. 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.
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#10. Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs."
"Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.
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#11. We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school.
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#13. Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.
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#14. Unless there's an officer-involved shooting or some other high-profile event going on, the Homicide Office is dead in the middle of the night.
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#15. Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.
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#16. I'm self-aware enough to know that I have a somewhat fractured personality. Not exactly multiple personality disorder, but clearly there were different drivers at the wheel depending on my mood, and depending on my needs. Over
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#17. A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.
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#19. My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.
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#20. It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.
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#21. Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.
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#22. Except that death collected everyone. Death is like that. Relentlessly efficient.
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#24. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines.
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#25. Leaving is never easy," said Tom. "Even when you know you have to go.
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#26. 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.
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#27. It's refreshing to be insane. Just as it's liberating to be aware of it.
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#28. Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes.
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#29. It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.
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#30. She agreed with Mark Twain that golf was a good walk spoiled.
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#31. And to Conrad, it seemed as though he had entered some strange world beyond our own, where nothing was as it appears, and anything could be possible.
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#32. There are also several notes in your file suggesting that you are a world-class smartass." "Really? You mean I made it through the nationals?" "And you apparently think you're hilarious." "You're saying I'm not?
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#33. My nerves were telling me this guy was half a keg short of a six-pack.
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#34. 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.
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#35. if you don't shut your mouth and work with us, then by the Lord Jesus, when we roll out of here in those buses I will personally tie you to the front grill, cover you with A1 sauce, and use you for bait. Look me in the eye and ask me if I'm joking.
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#36. Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347)
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#37. I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.
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#38. It was harder to let yourself sink if someone else needed you to be their rock.
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#39. In short," Dolan said, "if I try to fuck with Limbus, I'll end up on the street corner wearing a tinfoil hat.
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#41. Evil never dies. It merely waits. And it grows stronger in the dark.
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#42. 'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.
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#43. When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.
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#44. Watch Die Hard films until the day started making sense again.
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#45. Spotting the same car three times could have been a coincidence. Kim Kardashian's boobs could be real, too, and that's about as likely.
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#46. But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
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#47. Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.
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#48. But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.
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#49. Then this other guy, the thirteenth guy, comes crashing right into me. Even with all that was going on I thought, Drug addict. He was pale and sweaty, stank like raw sewage, and had a glazed bug-eyed stare. Sick bastard even tried to bite me, but
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#50. Ludo, for Christ's sake stop saying okey-dokey. We're master criminals. We're supervillains. Can't you come up with something that doesn't sound like we're a couple of hicks?"
"Yes, Your Exalted Evilness. How's that? Or should I call you Dark Lady?
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#51. I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.
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#52. I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy ... or maybe it's compassion ... is the wrong choice.
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#53. Call my cynical...but I've come to believe that most people who follow a total wack job aren't always true believers. They just like to follow. They like the perks. Makes them feel strong. Kind of weakens your faith in fruitcake fanatics.
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#54. Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.
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#55. I'm not entirely sure who you are. I mean, you're not really a kid anymore and you're not an adult. ... So, you're going through all these changes, and I don't know who you'll be at the end of it.
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#56. He'd never much cared for the need to believe one people were better than another. One on one, most of them seemed all right. It was only when you gathered any of them in groups they tended to be stupid.
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#57. I could feel the shakes starting to come back, so I washed my face, rinsed my mouth out with handfuls of tap water, pasted on my best I-didn't-just-kill-a-zombie expression, and left with my coffee.
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#58. The high is, according to the junkies, worth the side effect. For the record, this is one of the reasons I hate people.
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#59. He could laugh, though, and there was no bluesman who ever lived who didn't know how to laugh at the craziness of life.
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#60. It's easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.
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#61. It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.
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#62. When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them.
"I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.
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#63. Newton screamed when he felt them begin to crawl over his scrotum and try to wiggle between his buttocks
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#64. Lilah, there's not a living soul on this planet who shouldn't be afraid of Saint John.
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#65. 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.
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#66. How do you know that?"
"Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.
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#67. Holy Christ . . . are we talking zombies here?" Church smiled faintly. "We're calling him a 'walker.' Short for 'Dead Man Walking.' The head of my science team has too much of a pop culture sensibility.
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#69. Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.
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#70. The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.
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#71. How deep inside your own heartbreak do you have to fall before there's no outward sign of life?
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#72. 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.
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#73. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?
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#74. We've all had our moments of weakness and failure. All of us. We've all suffered through dark nights of the soul.
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#75. Love was a pathway to cruel pain. It was the arrow that Fate always kept aimed at your back.
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#76. Well, maybe that would have happened if the world hadn't ended.
It did. The world ended.
On a friday.
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#77. There was a lot of animosity on the County side, a lot of jealously.
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#78. (T)he world is always changing. Always. We can't give the next generation a set of guarantees. Best we can do is help them be smart enough and tough enough to deal with whatever comes. You know as well as I do that we're not going to be there forever for them.
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#79. What's with the shorts?" "There's a new fitness trainer. Jamaican gal . . . tall, gorgeous." "And . . . ?" "Bike shorts show off my package." "Jesus Christ." "Jealousy is an ugly thing, Joe." "Get in the fucking car.
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#81. Lilah stood above them, tall and beautiful, her white hair whipping in the fresh breeze, her clothes streaked with gore, her hazel eyes glowing with fire.
She turned slowly to Nix and in her ghostly whisper of a voice said, I hate boys.
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#82. Write the best book you can, the one that demands to be written, no matter what genre it is. Even a trend the trades tell you has gone stale can be revitalized by a superb piece of writing. It'll never be revitalized by someone jumping on a trend bandwagon.
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#83. Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.
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#84. Men screamed as she opened them and let their futures spill out.
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#85. The way Benny saw it, when your first memory was of zombies killing your parents, then you had a license to hate them as much as you wanted.
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#86. Know your enemy. The more you know about them, the less easily they can surprise you. And by studying them you might identify a weakness or vulnerability.
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#87. Suddenly we were in outer space. Aboard a rusty old piece of junk freighter. Far away. And in real trouble.
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#88. Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
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#89. He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.
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#90. I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.
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#91. Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.
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#92. I kicked Beaky Nose in the nuts with the toe of my shoe, very, very hard. I have big feet and my shoes have steel toes. This is never good news for the sorry son of a bitch whose balls get in the way of my rage issues.
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#93. I fished inside my head for something, some way to prove it. And those strange words floated to the surface of my need. In as clear a
voice as l could, l looked at Prospero and said, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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#94. It's horrible, and we humans, just as always, will be the cause. Screw up the water. Fuck up the air. Cut down the trees and shit on the world. We'll call it science. We'll call it sport.
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#95. Life is truly weird ... And it's not getting any less weird the farther I get from home.
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#96. 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.
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#99. They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.
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#100. When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.
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