Top 100 Michael Grant Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “He found a set of encyclopedias – like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.”

— Michael Grant

52. “She was scared. Scared of dying.”

— Michael Grant

53. “Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.”

— Michael Grant

54. “Smart stupid. Stupid smart.”

— Michael Grant

55. “No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it.”

— Michael Grant

56. “She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die.”

— Michael Grant

57. “Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny’s sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.”

— Michael Grant

58. “Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. – Sanjit to Lana.”

— Michael Grant

59. “A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about.”

— Michael Grant

60. “I think you should send Penny away.” When Caine started to object, Albert, finally evincing his impatience, raised his hand. “First, because Penny is a sick, unstable person. She was bound to cause problems, and she’ll cause more. Second, because what happened to Cigar turns everyone against you. It’s not just Quinn: everyone thinks it’s wrong. And third, if you don’t and if Quinn stands firm, this town will empty out.”

— Michael Grant

61. “Superpowers,” he said to himself, “don’t always make you a superhero.”

— Michael Grant

62. “The boy hates chicks, right? Let’s go give him a good reason to.”

— Michael Grant

63. “I am too perfect for Evening,” Adam volunteers. “But that’s all right.” He smiles shyly at Aislin. “I am not too perfect for Aislin.”

— Michael Grant

64. “No one vinces me, baby.”

— Michael Grant

65. “It’s not about the powers, man; it’s that we aren’t kids anymore. Look what we’ve been through. Look what we’ve done. Look at yourself, surfer dude. We’ve done something none of our parents have even come close to. We didn’t take over their boring world; we took over a world about a thousand times tougher. If we walk out of this alive, we won’t have to bow our heads to anyone.”

— Michael Grant

66. “The bringer of fear was afraid.”

— Michael Grant

67. “It’s not the monsters who are so completely different that are scary, Sanjit reflected. It’s the ones who are too human. They carry with them the warning that what happened to them might happen to you, too.”

— Michael Grant

68. “Sometimes I think He looks down and says, “Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little.”

— Michael Grant

69. “The fool says ‘I never intended to kill. I meant only to wound.’ But I tell you that if you prick a finger with a poisoned thorn you may not claim innocence when the heart dies. Do not plant a weed and pretend surprise when it grows to strangle your garden. For, I tell you that hate is to kill, for from hatred grows death as surely as life grows from love. Therefore do not nurture hatred, but love, even for those who hate you in return. Hatred wins many battles, and yet love will triumph.”

— Michael Grant

70. “Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can do multiplication.”

— Michael Grant

71. “Albert wiped sweat from his forehead. “Quinn, why do you think people work hard? Just to get by? You think your folks worked just to get by? Did they buy just enough food? Or did they get just barely enough house? Or a car that barely runs?” Albert’s voice was urgent. “No, man, people like a good life. They want more. What’s wrong with that?”

— Michael Grant

72. “Sam, that’s a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I’m black and I’m a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines.”

— Michael Grant

73. “Only Jack has remarked on the irony that America is going to war against a white supremacist enemy with a segregated American army.”

— Michael Grant

74. “You can’t do anything else with people like this. You have to kill them all. Zil. Caine. Drake. You just have to kill them.”

— Michael Grant

75. “He’s not the first to say that.”

— Michael Grant

76. “Edilio sighed and leaned forward, elbows on the desk. “Quinn, listen, man. We need stuff back to normal.”

— Michael Grant

77. “Sam smiled. “You know it always gets me hot when you say ’apt analogy.”

— Michael Grant

78. “Misery needed to believe in a better future.”

— Michael Grant

79. “At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries.”

— Michael Grant

80. “I have done evil. But there’s only one path forward: to fight evil. That’s my only redemption.”

— Michael Grant

81. “San: You all right? Virt: I think i crapped myself a little Sam: Just a little? you’ve got nerves of steel.”

— Michael Grant

82. “She doesn’t want to know that in her own country there are men and women every inch the moral equivalent of the Nazis.”

— Michael Grant

83. “Life is my nightmare now, and paradoxically, my dreams have become escapes.”

— Michael Grant

84. “He started reading. He jumped from volume to volume, understanding only part of what he was reading, but understanding enough to follow another lead and then another. It was exactly like following hyperlinks, only slower, and with more lifting.”

— Michael Grant

85. “In the distance, up the street, too far away for Sam to want to chase after, a couple of kids, maybe ten years old, maybe not even that. Barely visible in the false moonlight. Just outlines. The kids passing a bottle back and forth, taking swigs, staggering.”

— Michael Grant

86. “And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you’d like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.”

— Michael Grant

87. “So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack’s true love was made of silicon.”

— Michael Grant

88. “It’s the beauty of light, don’t you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It’s even better than darkness.”

— Michael Grant

89. “No, I love watching autopsies of disgusting mutant monsters.”

— Michael Grant

90. “Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter’s drop cloth. She felt no pain. She saw no light. She heard, but barely. Her heart was still and silent. Yet she did not die.”

— Michael Grant

91. “I knew the eyes. I didn’t know the Kraut, but yeah, I sure knew that look. I see it when I look in the mirror, even now. If you stay too long in the war, it’s like your eyes try to get away, like they’re sinking down, trying to hide, wary little animals crawling into the cave of your eye socket.”

— Michael Grant

92. “Hope is the best form of torture.”

— Michael Grant

93. “They both smiled at the picture of Albert in his chinos and button-down shirt exhorting kids from atop a bike.”

— Michael Grant

94. “Sadie was like that, one of those people untouched by trend or fashion, comfortable building her own world out of what she liked, from tunes and styles and reads that could be so ancient they were cobwebbed, up through to things so new they barley existed yet.”

— Michael Grant

95. “Of course, some people, when they’re nervous or afraid, turn pedantic. And if you don’t know what pedantic means, here’s a clue: in the dictionary, I’m the illustration they use.”

— Michael Grant

96. “They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.”

— Michael Grant

97. “Forgive. Forgive him and forgive yourself. And come back to the land of the living.”

— Michael Grant

98. “God forgive me for being a creep who starves people?” Diana suggested.”

— Michael Grant

99. “I hated the world. I hated what it did to gentle people.”

— Michael Grant

100. “And death is better because death is the end of fear, isnt it? -Dekka.”

— Michael Grant