Top 100 Mira Grant Quotes
#1. The sky was a flawless blue, the color of surgical gloves.
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#2. People used to romanticize the natural world, before the Rising. These days, we mostly just run away from it.
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#3. You may think you're doing the right thing, and hell, you may even be right, but when you don't let anyone watch over your shoulder, how the fuck are the rest of us supposed to know?
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#4. It's amazing how many of the things needed for a basic biology lab are capable of blowing up, if you're willing to try very, very hard, and don't much care about possibly losing a few fingers in the process.
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#5. That's the danger of genius. One way or another, it's going to destroy the world.
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#6. Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress
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#8. There were always going to be people willing to trade a place in a cage for a gun and somebody they could point it at. No
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#9. The fact that he was still smiling was either a testament to his training or an argument in favor of stimulants.
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#10. Tansy had acted like a thug and reacted like a heroine, and if that wasn't one of the best combinations I'd ever encountered, I didn't know what was.
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#11. We're all monsters ... Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you're willing to eat the world if that's what you have to do to keep yourself alive.
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#12. There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.
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#13. Hate to ask you this, Sal, but is it all right if we don't go straight back to your house? I think I need to stop at the hospital." I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand as I forced myself to sit up. "Okay," I said, in a small voice.
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#14. A fresh Coke would keep me from thinking too hard about the tools he was using to do the job.
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#15. My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.
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#16. Do your research. Do your homework. Learn what this man would do to our country in the name of preserving a brand of freedom that is as destructive as it is impossible to secure. Know your enemy.
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#17. People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.
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#18. Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?
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#19. That meant we needed to play to our strengths, and our strengths came from lifelong training in shoving microphones at danger and demanding that it explain itself. It wasn't much. It was going to have to be enough.
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#20. The next person who says "I'm sorry" is going to get punched in the nose. Because "I'm sorry" doesn't do a damn thing except remind me that this can't be fixed. This is my world now. And I don't want it.
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#21. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.
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#22. When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand.
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#23. There was no single index case. It all began, and ended, too fast for that sort of record keeping to endure.
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#24. Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one.
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#25. Never 'it,' never 'it,' " Marya chided. "None of God's creatures is an 'it,' even if they're not a boy or a girl or a mammal or a pretty bird. Call them 'he' or she' and be a little wrong, but never take away their individuality like that.
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#26. It's quite all right," I assured him. "My mother always said that eggs were appropriate no matter the time of day." That was a filthy lie: My mother was a traditional woman who would have died before she'd fed me breakfast this late in the day.
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#27. More things we learned from the Rising: It's hard to gentrify a city that's on fire.
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#28. Babies arrived covered in blood, didn't they? Maybe dropping something tiny and helpless into the world with its own gravy was a terrible decision on the part of evolution.
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#29. People who can't hack it as Irwins because they're too violent go into the air travel industry.
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#30. Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.
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#31. Is Shaun Mason activating security profile Pardy. Something's wrong with Brenda, we're out of Mister Pibb, and hunting season's here. Now let's go to Hollywood.
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#32. If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.
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#33. Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.
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#34. We all want things that can never happen, and even when we know they're not going to become reality, we keep on wanting them.
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#35. I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.
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#36. Small Planes, Large Fences, and a Rather Daunting Number of Zombie Kangaroos, Because That Is Exactly What This Day Needed
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#37. I don't need to hear it, Sherman. I've already run every little bit of your possible dialogue in my head while I was masturbating.
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#38. Everything is 'just a story'. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it's just a story. What matters is making sure it's heard.
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#39. The first rule we were taught in medical school was A cadaver is not a toy.
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#40. 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.
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#41. This constant 'stay inside and let yourself be protected' mentality has gotten more people killed than all the accidental exposures in the world. It's like we're all addicted to being afraid.
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#42. The line between "police force" and "army" is narrow under the best of circumstances.
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#43. You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.
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#44. Money talks, and people like science that seems just a little bit insane. It reminds them that the future is tomorrow, and that we have a chance to shape it.
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#45. 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.
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#46. And everyone knows I'm a mad scientist. It's amazing what everyone knows, isn't it? Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. But that's neither here nor there.
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#47. Fuck this. Let's just blow some shit up.
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#48. No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.
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#49. I was unaware that Darwinism was a race. - Mahir Gowda
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#50. ...no elves or CPAs or other mythological creatures appeared to do my paperwork in the interim
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#51. I am tired of shooting zombie deer that wander past our safety zone. Well, okay. I'm not really tired of that part. That part is pretty cool. Suck it, Bambi.
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#52. The lab isn't evil, it's ethically challenge. We do good things.
I bet Frankenstein told himself the same thing.
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#53. If there's a rating system for quality of hallucination, I can say I was definitely scoring pretty high
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#54. After all, why leave your house when you can live vicariously through a dumb kid willing to risk his life for your amusement? Bread and circuses. That's all we are.
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#55. She was sitting on the counter, holding a can of Coke. "Looking for this?" she asked.
"My savior." I walked toward her, making grabbing motions. "Gimme. Gimme sweet, sweet caffeine."
"The word is 'please,' Mason.
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#56. We're going to tell the truth." I glanced toward him. "Hopefully, that's going to be enough.
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#57. None of my remedial education classes covered how to escape in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.
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#58. Last guy I was interested in turned out to be an incestuous necrophiliac," she said. "So no, not currently dating, and definitely not doing any more shopping in the 'sociopath' category
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#59. He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.
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#60. I guess being brought back from the dead and used as a CDC lab rat would fuck up just about anybody.
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#61. They can't reproduce?" said Shaun incredulously. "That's your big solution? They won't fuck? Did none of you people ever see Jurassic Park?
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#62. So this is fun. This is a fun time.
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#63. You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore ... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.
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#64. 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.
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#65. [H]e looked at me gravely and asked, "Are you ready?"
"No," I said. "I'm pretty sure I've never been ready for anything that had to be prefaced with that question.
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#66. Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.
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#67. Isn't that the justification used by every scientist who made something wonderful, only to discover that they've made something terrible? 'We did it for Science.
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#68. I'm a mad scientist, aren't I? We all have master plans. Without them, we'd just be fairly disgruntled scientists who think we really ought to form a committee to discuss our grievances.
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#69. A truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.
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#70. I have to find the heart of every subject as fast as I can, pin it down on the page, and then cut it wide open for the audience to see.
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#71. You're crazy. You know that, right? I mean, Shannon says it's not a good word to use, because sometimes people who aren't crazy point it at people who are and use it like a weapon, but I figure we're both crazy, so that makes it okay." I was
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#72. One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.
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#73. Once Sally gets an idea in her head, there's not much room for too much else ...
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#74. The day was getting more interesting by the minute. I just had to hope it was the sort of interesting we'd live to talk about later.
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#76. I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home.
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#77. I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit.
(Shaun Mason)
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#78. I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.
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#79. Indiana Jones and the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, coming never to a theater near you.
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#80. Even after death, life still goes on.
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#81. And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.
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#82. Tansy started forward again, dismissing the two corpses like they didn't matter anymore. To her, I guess they didn't. The men were dead. They weren't any fun to play with once they were dead.
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#83. 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.
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#84. I never thought it was possible to overlook your own death, but apparently it is.
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#85. You don't go that far past the borders of Crazytown and come waltzing out unscathed.
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#86. News is news and spin is spin, and when you introduce the second to the first, what you have isn't news anymore. Hey, presto, you've created opinion.
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#87. It's that zombie virus thing that was on the news!" shouted a man in a Starfleet uniform. It was Next Generation command red, but he was running away from the danger, not toward it. Maybe that was how the command crew stayed alive. "They'll eat you if you stay here!" "They
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#88. That's what humanity does when faced with wolves. We take them in, tame them, and teach them how to keep us safe.
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#89. Science is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it doesn't care whether it hurts you. Fire warms us, cooks our food, protects us from predators, but it will burn us if we let it. Fire is more than happy to eat us all alive. Science is fire writ large.
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#90. Are you ever not a pessimist?"
"Sometimes. But then I wake up.
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#91. This guy thinks he can eat textbooks and shit miracles,
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#92. Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, shame on me. Kill my brother? Oh, it's on. And you are not going to enjoy it.
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#93. If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.
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#94. So hell, maybe we just killed the last grizzly in the world. I'd feel bad about that if it hadn't been an infected zombie bear that wanted to eat my delicious flesh.
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#95. 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.
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#96. It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people.
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#97. Impulse control problems don't usually come with a body count.
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#98. Blood is one thing, but that's not all that goes into family. The family you choose is the family that really matters. They're the ones who'll keep you standing.
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#99. Only Shaun would be totally miserable if I did that, because he'd follow me. He'll always follow me, just like I'll always follow him. That's what being together means, right? Neither of us ever has to be alone.
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#100. Dolly Parton was a hero of the Rising, and I dare you to tell any red-blooded American girl who's ever felt bad about her wardrobe differently," said Governor Kilburn.
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