Quotes About Mira

#1. You don't like Blue, do you?"
"No," Mira said, caught off guard by the change of subject.
"I was worried he was doing his knight-in-tarnished-armor thing and it was winning you over.

Sarah Cross

#2. Blue was standing over her, shaking out his wet hair like an annoying blue dog. Beads of water clung to the muscle of his chest. He was wiry, not buff like Henley, but his body made up for size with definition.
Nothing could make up for his personality.
"Stop dripping on me," Mira snapped.

Sarah Cross

#3. Mira shrugged. If Rachel thought long-distance romance was weird, she'd think the truth - a fake long-distance romance, complete with eight months' worth of love letters that Mira had written to cover her tracks - was a whole lot weirder.

Sarah Cross

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"
Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

Kristin Hannah

#7. We do not choose our fate, we can only choose if we accept it. Fate will take us where it will, whether we will it or not. (Sister Mira)

Brenda Cothern

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Mira, I wanna tell you something. I ain't got time to tell you what I should've when I had time, but I dig you a whole lot." "Deeg you?" she asked, puzzled. I explained to her what it meant and told her that I would write it to her in Spanish and say it like it was.

Piri Thomas

#11. 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

#12. Mira sat down on the rim of the fountain. The marble ledge was damp, and mist sprinkled her skin. Coins shimmered under the water like fish scales.
She counted them, each one a wish, and wondered how love could be anything but good.

Sarah Cross

#13. I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.

Francois Englert

#14. Eve got her first real clue why so many women carried handbags the size of water buffalos when Mira pulled a first aid kit out of hers. I'm

J.D. Robb

#15. The Great Dancer is my husband," Mira says, "rain washes off all the other colors.

Mirabai

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Probably not great to call a nine-year-old a prostitute," Mira said.
"Fine. Filthy whore, then.

Kate Scelsa

#20. And I did," Alex said. "I let her go. Because I did love her, and I did want her to be happy."

Hart, Megan (2015-03-01). Vanilla (Kindle Location 4400). MIRA. Kindle Edition.

Megan Hart

#21. Mira admitted. "This is my risk to take. Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed." "Technically, you can't live if you get killed," Jace pointed out.

Brandon Mull

#22. Ot-yebis' Eugene," Mira says, her face getting flushed. Whatever she just said, Eugene takes a breath and stops talking.

Dima Zales

#23. I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

Paul Sorvino

#24. I love you, Mira ... my Mate. My life. You're my everything.

Lara Adrian

#25. As always when she saw the kind and dreamy eyes of Dennis Mira, her heart gave a little tug. Just something about him, she thought, with his cardigans and mussed hair, bemused smile.

J.D. Robb

#26. My lover's gone off
to some foreign country,
sopping wet at our doorway
I watch the clouds rupture.
Mira says, nothing can harm him.
This passion has yet
to be slaked.

Mirabai

#27. What did Mira show your attacker last week? he asked, desperate to turn the attention away from himself now. Yakut shrugged. Only he can know. The girl has no knowledge of what her eyes reflect. Thank God for that. Niko hated to think of the education she might have just gotten otherwise.

Lara Adrian

#28. Winning can be addictive," Mira agreed. "So can murder.

J.D. Robb

#29. I have doubts, but I'm willing to try. It's the best I can offer. Will you try? I need you, Mira. Try for me.

Jocelynn Drake

#30. When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn't until after it was sold that I said 'Mira Grant' wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based.

Seanan McGuire

#31. He wanted to see Mira well-fed and clothed. He wanted to get her back home, safe again, and with their family, where she was supposed to be.
And for Anna ... Jovanni couldn't seem to pull together the right words for what he wanted.
For Anna, he wanted everything.

Lena Goldfinch

#32. 'Mira Grant' is actually my pseudonym. And 'Seanan' is pronounced 'SHAWN-in.'

Seanan McGuire

#33. Remove the Curtain of your Heart and see the Beloved sitting inside yourself. Close your Ears to the Outside and hear the Cosmic Sound going on within you.
Intro to Part 2, Chapter 1. Credit given to Mira, poet-saint of Rajastan.

Deborah Moggach

#34. He shut off the mower when he saw them - and scowled.
Mira hoped that wasn't Viv. But on the bright side: someone else was unhappy to see Blue and Freddie. The world was already making more sense.

Sarah Cross

#35. 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

#36. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

#37. The sky was a flawless blue, the color of surgical gloves.

Mira Grant

#38. Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#39. Because all of us are so ready to talk about the world we live in. We are ready to have a publishing industry that is of that world.

Mira Jacob

#40. Humanity has always been disturbingly happy to sacrifice its future on the alter of right now.

Mira Grant

#41. As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living.

Mira Grant

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

Mira Grant

#43. The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

Mira Grant

#44. People used to romanticize the natural world, before the Rising. These days, we mostly just run away from it.

Mira Grant

#45. 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

#46. 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?

Mira Grant

#47. 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

#48. 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

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

Mira Grant

#50. I just want to know what I'm going to be freaking out about before I waste energy freaking out about the wrong things. Conservation of panic is important.

Mira Grant

#51. 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

Mira Grant

#52. Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?" asked Becks. "Is it a union requirement or something?

Mira Grant

#53. But my name is Georgia Mason. And I am here to tell you the truth.

Mira Grant

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. Hey George, check this out.

Mira Grant

#58. 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

Mira Grant

#59. The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

Mira Sorvino

#60. The fact that he was still smiling was either a testament to his training or an argument in favor of stimulants.

Mira Grant

#61. I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

Mira Sorvino

#62. I guess when you're one of the richest people on the planet, you can buy yourself a window that never shows you anything ugly.

Mira Grant

#63. 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

#64. 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

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

Mira Grant

#66. I would have dismissed [the email] as spam, except for the first word: urgent. People stopped flinging that word around like confetti after the Rising. Somehow, the potential for missing the message that zombies just ate your mom made offering to give people a bigger dick seem less important.

Mira Grant

#67. 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.

Mira Grant

#68. Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something.

Mira Jacob

#69. 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

#70. No vampires? You know, the kind that sparkle? I giggle to myself, thinking "Go Team Edward!" - Willow

Mira Monroe

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

Mira Grant

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. And those people? They like it when you're scared. So they do their best to sit on the truth,

Mira Grant

#75. I'm going to aerosolize me some dead guys.

Mira Grant

#76. I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

Mira Grant

#77. I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

Mira Bartok

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

Mira Grant

#79. 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.

Mira Grant

#80. A fresh Coke would keep me from thinking too hard about the tools he was using to do the job.

Mira Grant

#81. That was the cold equation. How many lives is one person, even a totally innocent person, going to be worth?

Mira Grant

#82. Funny, a witch who likes dogs over cats. I think I like this about you. - Rhydian

Mira Monroe

#83. For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

Mira Nair

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

Mira Grant

#85. All groups are a little intimidated by ya show of power. I mean who ever thought the monarchy was dead didn't realize it changed zip codes. - Cross

Mira Monroe

#86. I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

Mira Sorvino

#87. Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

Mira Sorvino

#88. Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.

Mira Bartok

#89. I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Mira Nair

#90. What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.

Mira Bartok

#91. My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

Mira Grant

#92. 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

#93. 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.

Mira Grant

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

Mira Grant

#95. Of course, if we were lucky, we wouldn't be getting chased by an army of zombies through the quarantine area that used to be downtown Santa Cruz. We'd be somewhere safer, like Bikini Atoll just before the bomb testing kicked off.

Mira Grant

#96. 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

#97. Why can't you just say 'don't breathe the water' like a normal person?"
"Because I'm a doctor, and they teach us never to use little words where big ones will do.

Mira Grant

#98. 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

#99. People used to travel for fun before the Rising. Can you believe that? - Alaric Kwong

Mira Grant

#100. People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.

Mira Grant