Mira Grant Quotes

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

Some people live where they work. Others just visit.​

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

Crazy gets all the knives.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

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

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit. (Shaun Mason)

The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night.

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.

I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.

How did you find me anyway." "For all that I must keep reminding you that I am not a bloodhound, it's true that on occasion, having a sensitive nose is a useful thing. I followed the smell of you." Tybalt sighed, looking exaggeratedly put-upon. "If you must be ferried back to your people, I suppose I can oblige. But only because you asked me so very nicely, and promised me a kiss.

Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family.

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

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.

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.

October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after ‘tending to some business at the Queen’s Court.’ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, it’s your manners. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough.

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

This 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.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

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.

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

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

...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.

When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.

Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.

Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

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

You can't kill the truth.

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

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.

Since Dominic's been sleeping with me, the mice have been trying various labels on him, looking for one that fits. My personal favorite was the week they spent calling him "the God of Absolutely Never Smiling, No, Not Ever.