Mira Grant Quotes

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

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

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

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

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

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start.

At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.

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

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.

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.

I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.

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

Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.

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.

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

I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

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

There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

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

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

Do we have to have the 'don't lie to the telepath' talk again? It won't take long. I say 'don't lie to the telepath, it never works,' you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit.

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

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

She laughed like she'd just invented laughter.​

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​

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.​

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

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

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

I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home.

Words have power.

Hire new field systems maintainer" was near the top of my to-do list, right under "uncover massive political conspiracy, " "avenge Buffy's death, " and "don't die.

Everything is 'just a story'. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it's just a story. What matters is making sure it's heard.

When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand.

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people.

It's better to go out with a bang and a press release than with a whimper and a secret.

The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank.

Seriously, that woman is so much crazy crammed into a small space that she's practically a crazy singularity.

I just don’t understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form.

...brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.

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.