Top 100 Jonathan Maberry Quotes
#1. I don't aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he's a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.
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#2. 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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#3. Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.
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#4. It was harder to let yourself sink if someone else needed you to be their rock.
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#5. 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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#6. Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.
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#7. Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347)
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#8. This one looks good," said Chong over breakfast the next morning.
Benny read out loud from the paper. "'Pit Thrower.' What's that?"
"I don't know," Chong said with a mouth full of toast. "I think it has something to do with barbecuing."
It didn't.
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#9. Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
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#10. 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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#11. '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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#12. When giant violent albino penguins are the least extraordinary issue of the day, then your day has slipped a gear.
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#13. My nerves were telling me this guy was half a keg short of a six-pack.
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#14. I'm going to be dead for a long time. Let me be awake as much as I can for now.
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#15. You crazy or something?" growled Zucco. "It's come up in therapy.
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#16. 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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#17. I'd put two .45 slugs in him from fifteen feet. Pretty much does the trick. If it doesn't then your only logical ammunition upgrade is Kryptonite. But
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#18. 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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#19. She agreed with Mark Twain that golf was a good walk spoiled.
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#21. What terrified her most was the thought that staying alive had become nothing more than a habit. That was it. A reflex action without further or deeper purpose.
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#22. It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.
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#23. Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes.
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#24. That's got to be Nix," Benny said as he pulled the door open. "Hey, sweetie ... "
Morgie Mitchell and Lou Chong stood on the black porch.
"Um," said Chong, "hello to you, too, sugar lumps.
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#25. It's refreshing to be insane. Just as it's liberating to be aware of it.
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#26. Three things," I told her. "First, there's no such thing as too much coffee. Second,
caffeine has nothing to do with my jitters. And third, there's no such thing as too
much coffee.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I love weird science. I love weird action. I love weird characters.
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#30. I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, 'Avengers vs. the Mole Man.' Truly dreadful, but a work of love.
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#32. 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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#33. Quick-Draw Carl, who still wore the broad-brimmed brown hat of his legendary dad, Sheriff Rick.
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#35. 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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#36. When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.
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#40. 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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#41. Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.
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#42. 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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#43. Watch Die Hard films until the day started making sense again.
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#44. 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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#45. '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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#46. Did the sudden dark remind you that all of the things we expect to be there for us, to protect us, shelter us, provide for us, are fleeting and finite?
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#47. Evil never dies. It merely waits. And it grows stronger in the dark.
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#48. But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few.
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#50. Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.
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#51. With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.
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#52. The real world was never cool enough for anyone to accept a costumed supervillain. Which
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#53. There is music in the noise, beauty in the chaos, truth in the lies, light in the void. He who has eyes, let him see.
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#55. We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school.
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#56. She said, "Look down at your chest."
I held the cell phone to my ear as I bend my head. Two red dots, quivering slightly, danced right over my heart.
"You are one second away from death," said the caller.
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#57. 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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#58. If it rushed he'd slash. Stabbing is a fool's move, the blade gets caught. Ben knew that quick slashes could fend off even a big hound or a boar.
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#60. (H)ope was like a backstabbing friend. You could trust it sometimes, and then it would turn and drive its blade deep.
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#61. 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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#63. 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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#64. Some people never want to be part of the solution. All they want to do is bitch and whine and create complications for other people. You
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#66. The word "impossible" used to mean something. It was a line that couldn't be crossed. It was the outer edge of the safe zone.
I can't find that line anymore
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#67. Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.
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#68. A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.
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#69. If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.
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#71. Do you work for Starbox? If so, I can't say I dig your new marketing strategy.
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#72. She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.
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#73. When Tony lost it, it would be up to Ruger to take Lady Death by the tits and giver a good tweak. That's how he saw it. Give Lady Death's tits a good tweak.
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#74. Rape is, to me, no different than murder. It kills a part of the victim's soul.
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#75. Life don't never get easy, does it? It just keeps getting harder in stranger ways.
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#76. There are worse things that can happen to an enemy of the state than Gitmo. Hate to say it, hate it to be the truth, but there it is.
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#77. 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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#78. By the time I finished the first series, 'Marvel Universe vs. Punisher,' I knew that there was a lot more story to tell.
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#80. I was raised to fight to the end. You never give up, no matter how much it hurts, no matter what stands in your way.
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#81. Leaving is never easy," said Tom. "Even when you know you have to go.
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#82. 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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#85. Except that death collected everyone. Death is like that. Relentlessly efficient.
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#86. Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.
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#87. It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.
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#88. My first book deal was actually for a textbook - 'Judo and You' - that I wrote while teaching at Temple University. A scout for Kendall-Hunt came looking for someone to write the book, and even though it wasn't a course I was teaching there, I agreed to write it.
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#90. There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.
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#92. There are such moments in a life. Solitary seconds on which the reality of what life means pivots and turns from a dead end toward a road of untrodden grass that stretches on forever.
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#93. My Honda revved, shuttered, and broke free of the Chrysler.
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#94. Well, she sure don't hold the deed on grief and loss, son. We all been mussed and mauled by bad times. But that girl's done gone and shut down. I met gray people with more personality." She tapped her temple with a finger. "I'm beginning to suspect there ain't nobody home.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.
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#98. 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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#99. Dez, on the other hand, was pure backcountry Pennsylvania; a blue-eyed blonde who could have been a model for fitness equipment if not for what JT personally viewed as an overactive redneck gene.
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#100. 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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