Jonathan Maberry Quotes
I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.
There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.
There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.
Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.
You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.
Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.
A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.
When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.
Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!
But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.
How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.
Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.
Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.
My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.
Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.
The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.
Church didn't answer that. Instead he said, "The darkness is all around us. Very few people have the courage to light a candle against it.""I'm not that kind of idea
He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.
It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.