Josh Malerman Quotes

#1. Is he friendly?" Tom says quietly. "I've discovered," Jules says, "that a dog will become fast friends with the people who feed him.

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#2. How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?

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#3. It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.

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#4. MAN IS THE CREATURE HE FEARS.

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#5. believe that it's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. The

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#6. Boots, bushes, gardens, storefronts, buildings, streets, and stars. Why, she would have had to re-create the globe for them. But the best they got was fish. And the Boy loved them.

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#7. A grisly story, but one whose notoriety Malorie attributes to the seemingly senseless way the Internet has of making random occurrences famous.

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#8. Only a box of birds, Malorie thinks. Yet, it does feel like progress.

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#9. The moment between deciding to open your eyes and then actually doing it is as scary a thing as there is in the new world.

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#10. This,' Malorie says, placing a bloodied hand on the Girl's head, 'this is Olympia.' The Girl looks at Malorie quickly. She blushes. She smiles. She likes it. 'And this,' Malorie says, pressing the Boy to her body, 'is Tom.' He grins, shy and happy.

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#11. But here, she knows, they are not quite as lost. Or alone.

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#12. She was smiling. It was a smile Steve knew very well. The kind of smile from a girl that implied, if you answered in the affirmative, she'd see you in a way you always wish you saw yourself.

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#13. We left because some people choose to wait for news and others make their own.

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#14. Your baby is smarter than you think.

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#15. It's just one of the old-world fears, carrying over."
"What's that?"
"The fear of the cellar.

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#16. They are monsters, Malorie thinks. But she knows they are more than this. They are infinity.

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#17. In a world where you can't open your eyes, isn't a blindfold all you could ever hope for?

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#18. You're going to have to open your eyes.

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#19. In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

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#20. You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead.

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