Top 280 Mira Grant Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family.”

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2. “Words have power.”

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3. “Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there’s somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.”

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4. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure is a third man’s raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.”

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5. “The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”

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6. “You can’t kill the truth.”

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7. “Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.”

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8. “Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what’s right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.”

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9. “Nobody cares if you’re an idiot, as long as you’re a useful one.”

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10. “Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.”

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11. “One man’s gospel truth is another man’s blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we’ll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn’t agree with ours.”

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12. “We have to burn brightly. We can’t burn forever.”

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13. “We’re all monsters... Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you’re willing to eat the world if that’s what you have to do to keep yourself alive.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.”

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16. “I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.”

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17. “Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.”

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18. “The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.”

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19. “Sometimes humanity is the reason we can’t have nice things.”

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20. “Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.”

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21. “Having a home means having somewhere to go back to. Having a family means having someone to defend. Having a life means knowing you’ll do anything to keep it.”

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22. “I’d say it was nice knowing you, but as you’ve effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn’t been.”

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23. “When Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “The broken doors are open – come and enter and be home. My darling girl, be careful now, and don’t go out alone.”

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26. “There’s no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn’t judge people for being boring.”

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27. “No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they’ve been a villain all along.”

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28. “Whistling past the graveyard is a time-honored tradition. Keeps us from screaming.”

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29. “Do we have to have the ‘don’t lie to the telepath’ talk again? It won’t take long. I say ‘don’t lie to the telepath, it never works,’ you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit.”

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30. “If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.”

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31. “And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.”

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32. “You’d challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you’d still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.”

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33. “Fear makes people stupid.”

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34. “I just want to know what I’m going to be freaking out about before I waste energy freaking out about the wrong things. Conservation of panic is important.”

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35. “That’s the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.”

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36. “Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.”

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37. “Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.”

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38. “It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can’t laugh when you’re about to die, when can you?”

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39. “I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.”

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40. “The kind of stupid you can manage to achieve only by being really, really smart, because only really, really smart people can reach adulthood without having any goddamn common sense.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human. And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.”

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43. “Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a long, long fall.”

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44. “The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?”

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45. “Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, shame on me. Kill my brother? Oh, it’s on. And you are not going to enjoy it.”

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46. “Science is a cruel mistress. That means you should always have a safe word before you try to change the world. Otherwise, how will science know when to let you go? – Dr. Shannon Abbey.”

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47. “Nothing lasts forever. That’s the tragedy and the miracle of existence – that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.”

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48. “How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light.”

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49. “It’s not hard to marginalize people when they’ve already done it to themselves.”

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50. “Sometimes smart people can be a special kind of stupid. The kind where they know so many facts and are so good at saying “no one would ever do that” that they somehow manage to convince themselves the world is going to care about what they think.”

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