Mira Grant Quotes

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.

Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.

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

Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right.

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

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

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.

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

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

Being a King sort of sucks," I said. Quentin wrinkled his nose, "So does your outfit." "Blood is in this season.

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.

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

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.

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.

I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tybalt’s what we call ‘Cait Sidhe’— the fairy cats. Which explains the attitude. And the eyes.” “Meow,” said Tybalt, deadpan.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

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.

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

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.

By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.

I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?

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?

Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

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.

The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came.

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.

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

Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

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

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.

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

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

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from.

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

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

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet.

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.

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

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

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?