Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.
Mira GrantApril frowned, irritation evident. โI did not consent to your presence,โ she said peevishly. โPlease depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone elseโs property.
Mira GrantIโm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, โDo not actually put your hand in the alligator,โ while terror says, โAvoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.
Mira GrantThis is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.
Mira Grant