Top 280 Mira Grant Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you’re about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you’re doing the right thing.”

— Mira Grant

52. “A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man’s ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can’t do that much, she’s not trying hard enough.”

— Mira Grant

53. “Alive or dead, the truth won’t rest. Rise up while you can.”

— Mira Grant

54. “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

55. “Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality.”

— Mira Grant

56. “I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.”

— Mira Grant

57. “Nothing is impossible to kill. It’s just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving.”

— Mira Grant

58. “Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot – in this case, my brother, Shaun – deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.”

— Mira Grant

59. “News is news and spin is spin, and when you introduce the second to the first, what you have isn’t news anymore. Hey, presto, you’ve created opinion.”

— Mira Grant

60. “Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It’s creeping me out.”

— Mira Grant

61. “If we didn’t fear the truths we didn’t hear, we’d lose the need to fear the ones we did.”

— Mira Grant

62. “My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.”

— Mira Grant

63. “Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.”

— Mira Grant

64. “Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That’s the way it is for everyone.”

— Mira Grant

65. “I don’t know how long I can do this before I go sane, and I can’t cope anymore.”

— Mira Grant

66. “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

67. “Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don’t want to take the time to look away.”

— Mira Grant

68. “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

69. “I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi’s mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn’t reanimate and try to eat her son.”

— Mira Grant

70. “We can raise the dead. We can cure cancer. We can make the world better in every possible way, save one: No matter how hard we try, we just can’t cure stupid.”

— Mira Grant

71. “I feel the closest to crazy when I’m disagreeing with the voice in my head.”

— Mira Grant

72. “She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn’t worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.”

— Mira Grant

73. “Humanity is an aberration, an affront upon all that is right and true and holy.”

— Mira Grant

74. “There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.”

— Mira Grant

75. “The disadvantage of being independent is the way you’re never going to have a safety net. All you can do is fly until you fall – and falling is inevitable. Everybody falls, if you give them enough time.”

— Mira Grant

76. “Why are there so many words that sound exactly the same, only one of them is right and one of them is wrong, and if you use the wrong one everyone looks at you like you’re stupid and then you need to stab somebody to make the point that there are a lot of different types of intelligence and anyway English is hard.”

— Mira Grant

77. “Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.”

— Mira Grant

78. “Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don’t have issues, I have the Library of Congress.”

— Mira Grant

79. “Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.”

— Mira Grant

80. “We’ve found – us as a collective troupe, and Teal and Jess individually – that people talk one way to a woman who doesn’t stand up because she’s a mermaid, and another way to a woman who doesn’t stand up because her legs are not quite up to factory standards.”

— Mira Grant

81. “Because hubris is not only a sin, it’s a fun game to play at parties.”

— Mira Grant

82. “We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren’t better. We weren’t worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.”

— Mira Grant

83. “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

84. “But my name is Georgia Mason. And I am here to tell you the truth.”

— Mira Grant

85. “This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I’m pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby.”

— Mira Grant

86. “You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. – Tybalt.”

— Mira Grant

87. “When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.”

— Mira Grant

88. “Children’s games are stronger than you remember once you’ve grown up and left them behind. They’re always fair, and never kind.”

— Mira Grant

89. “In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.”

— Mira Grant

90. “Next time you’re wearing the ‘look at my titties’ shirt, and I’m filling the tank.”

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91. “We live in a world of our own creation. We’ve made our bed, ladies and gentlemen, whether we intended to or not. Now, we get the honor of lying down in it.”

— Mira Grant

92. “They were good people. Not dolphin-good, but human-good, which was almost good enough. They couldn’t fulfill the instinctive needs she had burning in her brain, the ones that told her to find a mate who wasn’t her brother or her uncle, to swim, to leap, to know. So she was here, with the deep black sea between her and her freedom.”

— Mira Grant

93. “Alien eyes watched the strange metal object as it floated upward. There was blood in the water. Their home had been invaded. They would respond.”

— Mira Grant

94. “We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.”

— Mira Grant

95. “That’s the human race. Always willing to slow down and look at the train wreck.”

— Mira Grant

96. “The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.”

— Mira Grant

97. “I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I’d be damned before I settled for anything less.”

— Mira Grant

98. “Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.”

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99. “We weren’t better. We weren’t worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.”

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100. “I guess I just want to do something amazing with my life. Isn’t that what everyone wants?”

— Mira Grant