Mira Grant Quotes

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.

I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

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.

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

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.

The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?

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.

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.

Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

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.

Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain.

Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.

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.

Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker

Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't actually kill you with their brains. Give you a whopping headache and earworm you with annoying jingles, yes; kill you, no. (Although sometimes, when she's managed to stick "The Happy Banana Song" in my head for a week, I sort of wish she could kill people with her brain. It would be kinder.)

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

That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?

Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

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.

I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason

Didn't we talk about this?" "HAIL!" "That isn't an answer." I planted my hands on my hips. "Was there a reason for shoving the gummy bears off the counter? Did they tell you they were suicidal? On second thought," I raised a hand, palm out, "don't answer that. If the candy is talking, I don't want to know.

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

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.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again.

I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything. I've got mine. Do you?

Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.

...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.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

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".

The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy

See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.

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

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