Quote

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

Mira Grant

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mira Grant
Really
Think
Thinking
Dear
Inside
Hand
Hands

More quotes by Mira Grant

Image
You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.
Mira Grant
Image
Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.
Mira Grant
Image
We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be.
Mira Grant
Image
If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.
Mira Grant
Image
Blood is one thing, but that’s not all that goes into family. The family you choose is the family that really matters. They’re the ones who’ll keep you standing.
Mira Grant
Image
The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.
Mira Grant
Image
Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.
Mira Grant
Image
Past experience told me he could smell my fear it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.
Mira Grant
Image
I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked.
Mira Grant
Image
Hey! I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. I was talking to him! Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.
Mira Grant
Image
I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?
Mira Grant
Image
I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.
Mira Grant
Image
He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.
Mira Grant
Image
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.
Mira Grant
Image
Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.
Mira Grant
Image
Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?
Mira Grant
Image
People say things like it wasn't supposed to go this way and this isn't what I wanted. They're just making noise. There's no such thing as supposed to, and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.
Mira Grant
Image
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.
Mira Grant
Image
April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.
Mira Grant
Image
Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.
Mira Grant