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Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

Jonathan Maberry

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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
Author
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
Infection
Revenge
Spirit

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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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Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor
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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.
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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.
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The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.
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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.
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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.
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Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.
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We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.
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It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.
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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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He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.
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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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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.
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Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.
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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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A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.
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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.
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Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.
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She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.
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