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It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.
Jonathan Maberry
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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
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A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.
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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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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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Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.
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They won the war but lost the peace.
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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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Revenge is an infection of the spirit.
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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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Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.
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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.
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There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
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That's stupid. That's people.
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This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?” “I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.” It didn’t.
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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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Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.
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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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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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It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.
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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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