Mira Grant Quotes - Page 3

Madness is surprisingly freeing.

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

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?

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

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.

It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason

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.

Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?” asked Becks. “Is it a union requirement or something?

We have to burn brightly. We can’t burn forever

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.

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

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

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.

I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

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

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

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

You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

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

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.