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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
If they really wanted some fancy new term for "zombie" to catch on, they should have made it easy to shout at the top of your lungs, -- Mira Grant
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
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
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
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
That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
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
We can raise the dead. We can cure cancer. We can make the world better in every possible way, save one: No matter how hard we try, we just can't cure stupid. -- Mira Grant
She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen. -- Mira Grant
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
Well, that's that, then. We're all going to die. Charming. -- Mira Grant
I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist. -- Mira Grant
We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be. -- Mira Grant
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
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
It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you? -- Mira Grant
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
Impulse control problems don't usually come with a body count. -- Mira Grant
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
Tom, you're with me. Bring the tranq gun, we don't want to kill her, but if she so much as looks funny in my direction, you're going to send her off to play with the magical pastel bunnies in the Shouldn't-Have-Fucking-Done-That Meadow. -- Mira Grant
Zombies don't respect conspiracy. Conspiracy is for the living. -- Mira Grant
Really? You'd do that for me? Because 'My Siater Abandoned Me in Zombie Country Without a Vehicle' would make a great article. -- Mira Grant
There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don't seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don't seem to know how to put it back where it belongs. -- Mira Grant
Hot, short, thorough," I said. I hesitated before adding, "Please." It never pays to insult computers that are smart enough to form sentences. Not when they're in control of the locks, and especially when they have the capacity to boil you in bleach.
"Absolutely," said the shower. -- Mira Grant
Even after death, life still goes on. -- Mira Grant
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
You're a miracle," he breathed.
"You're a miracle," the mermaid echoed, before it leaned up and carefully, almost delicately, ripped away his throat. -- Mira Grant
This is crap," Shaun said, withdrawing his arm.
"Right," I agreed.
"Absolutely fucking crap."
"No argument."
"I want to punch somebody right about now."
"Not it," Rick said.
"I punch back," Steve said. -- Mira Grant
Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for "suntan" is "burn. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
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
You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens. -- Mira Grant
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
No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along. -- Mira Grant
I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been. -- Mira Grant
The broken doors are open - come and enter and be home. My darling girl, be careful now, and don't go out alone. -- Mira Grant
People used to romanticize the natural world, before the Rising. These days, we mostly just run away from it. -- Mira Grant
I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit.
(Shaun Mason) -- Mira Grant
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
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. -- Mira Grant
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
My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare. -- Mira Grant
I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It's a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market. -- Mira Grant
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
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. -- Mira Grant
Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving -- Mira Grant
The fact that he was still smiling was either a testament to his training or an argument in favor of stimulants. -- Mira Grant
We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
The lab isn't evil, it's ethically challenge. We do good things.
I bet Frankenstein told himself the same thing. -- Mira Grant
And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve. -- Mira Grant
You bastard."
"My parents were married. -- Mira Grant
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
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
Neither of them was wearing a face shield. That put grenades out until I could get them to move out of the blast radius, since aerosolized zombie will kill you just as sure as the clawing, biting kind. -- Mira Grant
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
There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was. -- Mira Grant
The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward. -- Mira Grant
Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I'm really excited to have back on the air. -- Mira Grant
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
She's sleeping in the Ebola Room? -- Mira Grant
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
Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time. -- Mira Grant
Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing? -- Mira Grant
Humanity has always been disturbingly happy to sacrifice its future on the alter of right now. -- Mira Grant
There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog. -- Mira Grant
He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question. -- Mira Grant
You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn't exactly help me stay sane," I said. "Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason," said Becks. "That ship has sailed. -- Mira Grant
The only way anyone ever knows what matters to them is by losing it. If losing something breaks you in a way that can never be repaired, then that was what mattered. Now you know. Congrats. Try to live with it. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Oh, dear God - " "Pretty sure God's not here just now. Leave a message. Maybe He'll get back to you. -- Mira Grant
A fresh Coke would keep me from thinking too hard about the tools he was using to do the job. -- Mira Grant
No, that's too conservative, for I am a God among men and a poker into unpokeable places. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
We're all going to wake up any day now, and this will all be a dream. Until then, why don't we enjoy the chance to live in a science fiction novel? -- Mira Grant
To learn more about parasites, check out Parasite Rex, by Carl Zimmer. There are many, many books on the subject, but his is one of the most accessible jumping-on points you're likely to find. Welcome to the war. -- Mira Grant
But it never touched me. Not until Memphis. -- Mira Grant
I'm sorry, but you're kinda losing me here. I'm happy to keep apologizing, but I do need to know what I'm apologizing for. -- Mira Grant
Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor. -- Mira Grant
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
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
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. -- Mira Grant
The dog - Beverly - looked up at me with warm, trusting brown eyes. I was a human. I had her leash, and I knew her name. Clearly, I was going to make everything okay. It must be nice to be a dog. -- Mira Grant
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
You can't kill the truth. -- Mira Grant
Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them. -- Mira Grant
I'm not insane, I'm neurologically variant," she snapped back. "Sticks and stones, asshole. -- Mira Grant
How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
[R]equests from the corporation were never really requests. They were commandments wearing their best Sunday clothes. -- Mira Grant
If we're going to die horribly, we're all going to do it together. -- Mira Grant
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
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
That's what humanity does when faced with wolves. We take them in, tame them, and teach them how to keep us safe. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Irwins are never more alive than when they're five minutes away from getting slaughtered. -- Mira Grant
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
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
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
I guess I just want to do something amazing with my life. Isn't that what everyone wants? -- Mira Grant
When you're being chased by zombies, hills are either your best friends or your burial ground. The slope slows them down, which is great, unless you hit the peak and find out that you're surrounded, with nowhere left to run to. -- Mira Grant
Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot
in this case, my brother, Shaun
deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens. -- Mira Grant
The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank. -- Mira Grant
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
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
To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods. If these truths mean the world is less comforting than it might have been, it seems like a pretty small price to pay. -- Mira Grant
For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing. -- Mira Grant
The sky was a flawless blue, the color of surgical gloves. -- Mira Grant
[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. -- Mira Grant
Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you? -- Mira Grant
We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius. -- Mira Grant
That was what separated us from the zombies. -- Mira Grant
And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid. -- Mira Grant
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
Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one. -- Mira Grant
I don't know how long I can do this before I go sane, and I can't cope anymore. -- Mira Grant
Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away. -- Mira Grant
Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC. -- Mira Grant
Every article begins with a line that can be twisted, somehow, into a hook. -- Mira Grant
You all cool?"
"I'm cool," confirmed Becks.
"I haven't been 'cool' since arriving in this godforsaken hellhole you persist in claiming is a civilized nation. I am, however, ready to go violate a few more laws. -- Mira Grant
As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living. -- Mira Grant
I don't deal well with being alone. Maybe that's why I decided to go crazy instead. -- Mira Grant
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
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? -- Mira Grant
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
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. -- Mira Grant
Small Planes, Large Fences, and a Rather Daunting Number of Zombie Kangaroos, Because That Is Exactly What This Day Needed -- Mira Grant
We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone. -- Mira Grant
Sometimes, there is no reason for things to go wrong. They just do. -- Mira Grant
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
Hey George, check this out. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
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
When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight. -- Mira Grant
I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home. -- Mira Grant
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
Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal. -- Mira Grant
That's Becks. Always ready to offer a helping headshot. -- Mira Grant
I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed. -- Mira Grant
No team is complete without a good technician, and the word for an incomplete team is usually fatality. -- Mira Grant
A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. I'd rather be a living coward any day. -- Mira Grant
[M]y Coke hit the floor with a metallic clink, so much like the sound of a bullet casing being dropped. -- Mira Grant
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
Alien eyes watched the strange metal object as it floated upward. There was blood in the water. Their home had been invaded. They would respond. -- Mira Grant
It was the smell of home. Home isn't always a good place to be. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation. There were worse things to be than fictional. -- Mira Grant
His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up. -- Mira Grant
But that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense. -- Mira Grant
No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right. -- Mira Grant
This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I'm pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby. -- Mira Grant
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
And those people? They like it when you're scared. So they do their best to sit on the truth, -- Mira Grant
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
Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal. -- Mira Grant
It's a hard world these days, and no matter how hard we try, it just keeps on getting harder. -- Mira Grant
Fear makes people stupid. -- Mira Grant
The old Internet rallying cry: pics or it didn't happen. -- Mira Grant
Because you've managed to hide the existence of a significant other from the blogs. I don't care if you're involved with a man, a woman, or a sapient pear tree. You ought to go into international espionage. I never even heard a rumor. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
More things we learned from the Rising: It's hard to gentrify a city that's on fire. -- Mira Grant
None of my remedial education classes covered how to escape in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. -- Mira Grant
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
Fortunately, I had a believable, if utterly frivolous excuse for what we would have been doing out in Lafayette: There's this ice cream company called Jeni's? They're from Ohio? -- Mira Grant
Please do not lick anything past this point. -- Mira Grant
Now do what you do best. Break this fucking thing wide open, and let the pieces fall. -- Mira Grant
The first rule we were taught in medical school was A cadaver is not a toy. -- Mira Grant
We live in a world of our own creation. We've made our bed, ladies and gentlemen, whether we intended to or not. Now, we get the honor of lying down in it. -- Mira Grant
Know your enemy. That's what freedom really means. -- Mira Grant
I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head -- Mira Grant
People crave fear. -- Mira Grant
That was the cold equation. How many lives is one person, even a totally innocent person, going to be worth? -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
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
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
A truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie. -- Mira Grant
You're crazy," pronounced Becks.
"And you're carrying eight guns," I replied. "Now that we've covered what everybody knows, can we move on? -- Mira Grant
No one's ever come up with a universal color scheme for the apocalypse, and if ours wanted to come in neon and peppermint stripe, well. That was okay. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Kelly Nakata didn't know much about what was going on, but she knew that once a dog starts biting for no good reason, it doesn't tend to stop. -- Mira Grant
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
The line between "police force" and "army" is narrow under the best of circumstances. -- Mira Grant
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
Are you ever not a pessimist?"
"Sometimes. But then I wake up. -- Mira Grant
Yeah, well, right now? Right now, I think being crazy may be the only thing that's keeping me sane. -- Mira Grant
The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came. -- Mira Grant
The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity. -- Mira Grant
All scientists are mad scientists. -- Mira Grant
Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can. -- Mira Grant
When you spend your days playing with dead things, one or two flip-outs are bound to come with the territory. -- Mira Grant
There was no single index case. It all began, and ended, too fast for that sort of record keeping to endure. -- Mira Grant
Fuck this. Let's just blow some shit up. -- Mira Grant
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
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. -- Mira Grant
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
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
No matter how comfortable I felt at SymboGen, I needed to remember how good they were at taking things and reducing them to their lowest common denominator. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Science was competitive because it was full of scientists. -- Mira Grant
There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host. -- Mira Grant
Brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar. -- Mira Grant
There's always somebody willing and waiting to make a buck off somebody else's pain. -- Mira Grant
Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end. -- Mira Grant
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
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. -- Mira Grant
Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very best, willing to oppose all odds in order to protect the side of good. -- Mira Grant
Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love. -- Mira Grant
Isn't reduced brain damage a good thing?' asked Nathan.
'Oh, totally
I wish I had reduced brain damage, or at least, I wish bananas didn't taste like tangerines all the damn time
but this isn't the good kind of reduced brain damage. -- Mira Grant
If there's a rating system for quality of hallucination, I can say I was definitely scoring pretty high -- Mira Grant
Wow," said Fishy. "I don't think I heard a single full stop in there. You know, when you start talking entirely in comma splices, you're probably ready for a time-out and a tranquilizer. -- Mira Grant
That's the danger of genius. One way or another, it's going to destroy the world. -- Mira Grant
Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one. -- Mira Grant
Madness is surprisingly freeing. -- Mira Grant
Apparently, the voices in my head couldn't hear each other. That was just another slice of crazy pie. -- Mira Grant
You don't go that far past the borders of Crazytown and come waltzing out unscathed. -- Mira Grant
I was unaware that Darwinism was a race. - Mahir Gowda -- Mira Grant
Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Do I give money to charity and help old-lady zombies across streets so that they can bite babies? -- Mira Grant
There are people who will tell you that the ends justify the means, right up until they're talking about their own ends. Then, suddenly, morals and ethics matter. Funny thing, that. - Dr. Shannon -- Mira Grant
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
But my name is Georgia Mason. And I am here to tell you the truth. -- Mira Grant
Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary. -- Mira Grant
Becks had a pistol in either hand, making her look like an illustration from some fucked-up pre-Rising horror/Western. Showdown at the Decay Corral or something. -- Mira Grant
There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it's not backed up by anything but fear. -- Mira Grant
If you so much as look at her funny, I'll blow your fucking face off. We clear? Good. -- Mira Grant
Having a home means having somewhere to go back to. Having a family means having someone to defend. Having a life means knowing you'll do anything to keep it. -- Mira Grant
So this is fun. This is a fun time. -- Mira Grant
...no elves or CPAs or other mythological creatures appeared to do my paperwork in the interim -- Mira Grant
Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets. -- Mira Grant
Next time you're wearing the 'look at my titties' shirt, and I'm filling the tank. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Speak English at this table or I will fire you so fast you'll wind up standing at the airport wondering how you got from here to there without any goddamn pants on. -- Mira Grant
It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people. -- Mira Grant
If you still want to do this crap after the first time you've burned the body of a six-year-old with blood on her lips and a Barbie in her hands, I'll welcome you with open arms. -- Mira Grant
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 -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Sometimes smart people can be a special kind of stupid. The kind where they know so many facts and are so good at saying "no one would ever do that" that they somehow manage to convince themselves the world is going to care about what they think. -- Mira Grant
I guess being brought back from the dead and used as a CDC lab rat would fuck up just about anybody. -- Mira Grant
We have speed, and we have bullets. Everything else about this fight is in their favor. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds. -- Mira Grant
Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem. -- Mira Grant
Some experiences are nearly universal, and no more pleasant when viewed from the outside. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
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
[W]hat seems like madness at its inception will become the way things have always been if you give it enough time. -- Mira Grant
Once Sally gets an idea in her head, there's not much room for too much else ... -- Mira Grant
Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain. -- Mira Grant
Get your news from six or nine sources and you can usually tell the bullshit from the reality. -- Mira Grant
In the end, no one noticed when protection turned into imprisonment, or when 'for the good of the people' turned into 'for the good of the people in power.' It was all baby steps, all the way. -- Mira Grant
It's better to go out with a bang and a press release than with a whimper and a secret. -- Mira Grant
Nature doesn't have to make sense. Nature just does. -- Mira Grant
He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first. -- Mira Grant
The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people. -- Mira Grant
People used to travel for fun before the Rising. Can you believe that? - Alaric Kwong -- Mira Grant
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
Oh, jeez. Is that a spleen?" "I think that's a spleen, yes. -- Mira Grant
I'm going to aerosolize me some dead guys. -- Mira Grant
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
Kelly bit her lip. "Is ... is everything okay?" "Not really, but we can pretend. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
She was going to learn that the world was under no obligation to make sense either now or ever. Logic was a story we told ourselves to keep from going completely insane in the face of all the impossible things reality threw at us on a daily basis. -- Mira Grant
Curiosity is what it looks like when you're in love with the world. -- Mira Grant
What kind of world were we living in, where the people we trusted to keep us healthy were the ones keeping us sick[ ... ] -- Mira Grant
This guy thinks he can eat textbooks and shit miracles, -- Mira Grant
Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot. -- Mira Grant
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
Good dogs should never be asked to prove that they're good dogs. If there's anything in this world that we should take on faith, it's good dogs. -- Mira Grant
Seriously, that woman is so much crazy crammed into a small space that she's practically a crazy singularity. -- Mira Grant
Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it. -- Mira Grant
People who can't hack it as Irwins because they're too violent go into the air travel industry. -- Mira Grant
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 -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool. -- Mira Grant
Come and have a look at this.
I didn't want to have a look at anything. I went anyway. It's always better to understand than it is to be left sitting in the dark; it's always better to have answers, even when those answers lead to fresh questions. -- Mira Grant
Never yell in the middle of a mystery. It distracts people from the core issues - those being "What the fuck is going on?" and "How do we all get through this alive? -- Mira Grant
This was it: this was the moment where I would have to decide whether I wanted to be the girl I'd always been, or whether I was ready to become someone new. Someone who was brave enough to crawl into the dark alone, and see where the risk would take her. Someone who was going to survive. -- Mira Grant
But that's the thing about reality. It doesn't need to make sense. -- Mira Grant
I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less. -- Mira Grant
What the fuck is going on here? -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
The kind of stupid you can manage to achieve only by being really, really smart, because only really, really smart people can reach adulthood without having any goddamn common sense. -- Mira Grant
Failure to die is always appreciated. -- Mira Grant
We're going to tell the truth." I glanced toward him. "Hopefully, that's going to be enough. -- Mira Grant
Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That's the way it is for everyone. -- Mira Grant
Fuck it. Let's blow some shit up." - Shaun Mason -- Mira Grant
Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out. -- Mira Grant
You know what? Fuck it. Just fuck it. The Rising didn't manage to wipe out the human race, it just made us turn into even bigger assholes than we were before. Hear that, mad science? You failed. You were supposed to kill us all, and instead you turned us into monsters. -- Mira Grant
Does everyone from England go to sleep the minute you load them into a car, or is that something that's uniquely you? -- Mira Grant
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
Once a door is open, you have to live with what's on the other side. -- Mira Grant
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. -- Mira Grant
I suggest it's time we head off to see the Wizard. The wonderful Wizard of Jesus We Are All So Fucked. -- Mira Grant
Indiana Jones and the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, coming never to a theater near you. -- Mira Grant
At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover. -- Mira Grant
Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever. -- Mira Grant
If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did. -- Mira Grant
I just don't understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form. -- Mira Grant
Let's have ourselves a revolution. -- Mira Grant
Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start. -- Mira Grant
My name is Georgia Mason, and I am begging you. Rise up while you can. -- Mira Grant
It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope. -- Mira Grant
Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet.. -- Mira Grant
I never thought it was possible to overlook your own death, but apparently it is. -- Mira Grant
Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things. -- Mira Grant
One nice thing about stairs: Zombies can navigate them, but they can't do it fast. -- Mira Grant
say love is what keeps us together. The -- Mira Grant
Sometimes you need lies to stay alive. -- Mira Grant
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