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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
Author
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
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Easier
Stars
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Stories
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Tragedy

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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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She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.
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Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor
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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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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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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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Yo! Deadheads, he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!
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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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It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.
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Suffering is easier to endure when shared.
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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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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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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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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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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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Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.
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We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.
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