Mira's Quotes

#1. Mira's never wrong. Whatever she showed you tonight, it's fated to be."
"Fated", he said, sounding amused by that. "Well, shit. Then I guess we're doomed.

Lara Adrian

#2. Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue.

Mary E. Pearson

#3. If one were quite sincere with oneself, no conscience, and hence no consciousness, could be expected to subsist in a world where such things as Mira's death were possible.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. 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.

Mira Grant

#5. There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!

Mira Sorvino

#6. If there's a rating system for quality of hallucination, I can say I was definitely scoring pretty high

Mira Grant

#7. People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.

Mira Grant

#8. The lab isn't evil, it's ethically challenge. We do good things.
I bet Frankenstein told himself the same thing.

Mira Grant

#9. If the directions say to do it, we do it," said Maggie. "That's what everyone says. If you don't listen to the Monkey, he doesn't meet with you."
"Let's hope the directions don't tell us to shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die," I muttered, and pulled out onto the street.

Mira Grant

#10. AKWONG: DOES THE TRUTH ALWAYS HAVE TO HURT THIS MUCH? >> MGOWDA: SOMETIMES I THINK THAT'S THE ONLY WAY WE EVER REALLY KNOW IT'S TRUE.

Mira Grant

#11. Seriously, that woman is so much crazy crammed into a small space that she's practically a crazy singularity.

Mira Grant

#12. Fuck this. Let's just blow some shit up.

Mira Grant

#13. 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.

Mira Grant

#14. There's nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It's sort of the fabric and anchor of our country.

Mira Nair

#15. 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.

Mira Grant

#16. New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

Mira Nair

#17. Yeah, well, right now? Right now, I think being crazy may be the only thing that's keeping me sane.

Mira Grant

#18. A lot of people don't think my brother has a temper. It's like they assume I somehow sucked up the entire quota of "cranky," and now Shaun's perpetually cheery and ready for a challenge while I glower at people from behind my sunglasses and plot the downfall of the Western world.

Mira Grant

#19. It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.

Sarah Gavron

#20. 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.

Mira Grant

#21. A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. I'd rather be a living coward any day.

Mira Grant

#22. One, you don't know everything. Two, what you don't know can absolutely hurt you. And three, someone's getting fucked. The only question is, who's wearing the strap-on?

Mira Grant

#23. I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Mira Nair

#24. But that's the thing about reality. It doesn't need to make sense.

Mira Grant

#25. Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

Mira Grant

#26. 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.

Mira Grant

#27. Let's have ourselves a revolution.

Mira Grant

#28. I think my most shameful thoughts are the things people relate to the most, because everyone has questionable thoughts sometimes, and it's easy to feel incredibly alienated and lonely when you feel like nobody else is having those thoughts too.

Mira Gonzalez

#29. 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

Mira Grant

#30. Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Mira Sorvino

#31. There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it's not backed up by anything but fear.

Mira Grant

#32. Hire new field systems maintainer" was near the top of my to-do list, right under "uncover massive political conspiracy," "avenge Buffy's death," and "don't die.

Mira Grant

#33. Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people's parents?

Mira Jacob

#34. It's just an expensive eyesore announcing to the world that he's too hip to get his news online like the rest of the world," she reported dutifully. "How about you, Guy? Any trouble on the grounds?

Mira Grant

#35. I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

Mira Gonzalez

#36. I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.

Mira Nair

#37. My father has always had just one piece of advice about zombies and ammunition, one he's drilled into my head enough times that it's managed to stick: When you have one bullet left and there's no visible way out of the shit you're standing in, save it for yourself. It's better than the alternative.

Mira Grant

#38. 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.

Mira Grant

#39. 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?

Mira Grant

#40. Do you always faint at the sight of blood?"
Her jaw flexed, and a sound that was almost a growl emanated from low in her throat. "Only when it's mine. Your blood wouldn't bother me a bit.

Mira Lyn Kelly

#41. William stared at him, coffee forgotten. "Oh, Jesus."
"I'm pretty sure he's not listening, but you can call him if it makes you feel better," said Chris.

Mira Grant

#42. I suggest it's time we head off to see the Wizard. The wonderful Wizard of Jesus We Are All So Fucked.

Mira Grant

#43. Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

Mira Nair

#44. If there's a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is." I shrugged, still watching the sky ... "I just want to know that he's there, so that I can die knowing there's going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.

Mira Grant

#45. Mindy Lujan with her feathered hair, bullying blue-lined eyes, and potty mouth that rivaled Akhil's, managing to use fuck as a verb, an adjective, and a noun, often in the same sentence, as in, "Who the fuck does that fucking fuck think she's fucking with?

Mira Jacob

#46. Wow," Mira said, looking around, "super fun."
"When do they bring out the pig's blood and dump it on the head of the awkward girl with telekinetic powers?" Sebby asked.
"Not until ten, I think."
"Well, what are we supposed to do until then? This was not well planned.

Kate Scelsa

#47. The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

Mira Sorvino

#48. We're going to tell the truth." I glanced toward him. "Hopefully, that's going to be enough.

Mira Grant

#49. Accept who you are. Don't leave me, Willow. We are all broken, that's how the light shines through. - Rhydian

Mira Monroe

#50. All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would. That's what parents were for.

Marcha A. Fox

#51. A lot of people have read the Mira Grant books who are not urban fantasy readers, and they would never have picked up a book with an urban fantasist's name on the cover, but then they go on to read my urban fantasy and like it.

Seanan McGuire

#52. I don't deal well with being alone. Maybe that's why I decided to go crazy instead.

Mira Grant

#53. He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know ... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.

Mira Grant

#54. Know your enemy. That's what freedom really means.

Mira Grant

#55. George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

Mira Grant

#56. I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

Mira Nair

#57. Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.

Mira Grant

#58. Marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It's a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you.She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn't recognize him.
He didn't like it. Not at all.

Mira Lyn Kelly

#59. Oh, jeez. Is that a spleen?" "I think that's a spleen, yes.

Mira Grant

#60. There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

Mira Grant

#61. In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Mira Nair

#62. The thought was sobering. How many people's motives didn't match up with what I'd taken for their actions? How many villains were the heroes of their own stories? I didn't know, and I was terribly afraid that I was never going to find out.

Mira Grant

#63. Oh, dear God - " "Pretty sure God's not here just now. Leave a message. Maybe He'll get back to you.

Mira Grant

#64. 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.

Mira Grant

#65. An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot

Mira Jacob

#66. Don't feel sorry for me, now. It was for science, and as long as something is for science, it's worth doing. It's just not necessarily worth repeating.

Mira Grant

#67. Everyone belongs somewhere. Some of us are just lucky enough to figure out where it is while there's still time for us to find a way to get there. And once we arrive, we will never, ever leave.'
Juliet Seghers-Ward

Mira Grant

#68. I think I just had a minor psychotic episode or maybe a breakdown or something, but it's cool; I'm feeling basically okay now," I replied, closing the van doors. "You?

Mira Grant

#69. You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.'
Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's ... almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

Mira Grant

#70. Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always" ...

Mira Grant

#71. That's the danger of genius. One way or another, it's going to destroy the world.

Mira Grant

#72. 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.

Mira Grant

#73. The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do about what's right or wrong or just plain a bad idea.

Mira Grant

#74. Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.

Mira Nair

#75. That's Becks. Always ready to offer a helping headshot.

Mira Grant

#76. I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way.

Mira Grant

#77. How am I coping? I miss George and the goddamn world is still full of zombies, that's how. Everything else ...
Everything else is just details. And those don't really matter to me anymore.

Mira Grant

#78. I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

Mira Sorvino

#79. I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.

Mira Sorvino

#80. I hate that word [insane]. All it means is 'you don't think like I do,' and by that standard, everyone is insane. It's a meaningless idea.

Mira Grant

#81. More things we learned from the Rising: It's hard to gentrify a city that's on fire.

Mira Grant

#82. Thomas sniffed. "Don't let's start with all that." "I am not starting anything! You yourself started this business!" "Enough, Kam. I am warning you." "You don't warn me when I'm warning you!

Mira Jacob

#83. That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

Mira Grant

#84. 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.

Mira Grant

#85. 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.

Mira Grant

#86. Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one.

Mira Grant

#87. We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Mira Nair

#88. See, Berkeley has always drawn the nuts and flakes of the academic world. That's what happens when you have a university that offers degrees in both computer science and parapsychology.

Mira Grant

#89. Jeff shook his head, the lines between his brows drawing together. Ask yourself this, Connor - what is it that's got your manties in such a twist? I mean, really ... what is it about Megan you don't want to lose?

Mira Lyn Kelly

#90. He's fine," Kamala said. "It's not like that. You're not listening." "I am listening! You just told me he's delusional, and I'm asking - " "I DID NOT SAY HE IS DELUSIONAL. I SAID HE WAS TALKING TO HIS MOTHER." "Who is dead," Amina said gently. "Obvious." "And that's not delusional?

Mira Jacob

#91. I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

Mira Nair

#92. I figure I'll just keep on going the way I am until something starts making sense."
"What if nothing ever does?"
"I guess if that happens, I'll start hoping all the God freaks are right, and there's some superior intelligence up there treating us all like laboratory rats.

Mira Grant

#93. I heard all three bolts click home. Even if I screamed, they'd never let me back inside. That's the protocol when you're in the field. No matter how loudly you yell, they never let you in. Not if they want to live, anyway.

Mira Grant

#94. I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem

Mira Sorvino

#95. The only reward you get for making it to the end is making it to the end - you get to know the truth, and that's it.

Mira Grant

#96. I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

Mira Grant

#97. Sometimes the hardest thing about the truth is putting down the misassumptions, falsehoods, and half-truths that stand between it and you. Sometimes that's the last thing that anybody wants to do. And sometimes, it's the only thing we can do.

Mira Grant

#98. 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.

Mira Grant

#99. Maybe if we'd had more information...It wouldn't have made a difference at all. Those doors were already locked. What was going to happen was already a foregone conclusion. All that could have changed is the details.

Sometimes, it's the details that matter the most of all.

Mira Grant

#100. When she brought Mira up, Eve gave Roarke another glance. "Don't talk to him," she warned. "He can get bitchy when he's in this deep. I don't know if we have any of that tea stuff."
"I had it stocked, and I don't get bitchy. Bloody, buggering HELL."
Eve just rolled her eyes and got the tea.

J.D. Robb