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It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

Jonathan Maberry

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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
Author
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
Present
Knowing
Past
Important
Survival
Depends

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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.
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The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.
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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.
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Basher shook his head. No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs. Then you might be the cavalry, said Tom, but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.
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She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.
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Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace. I thought that if you had courage you always had it.. . . Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.
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That's stupid. That's people.
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Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.
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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.
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The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.
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