Top 280 Mira Grant Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.”

— Mira Grant

102. “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

103. “The Atargatis hadn’t found the mermaids through a free and open exchange of ideas. The Atargatis had found the mermaids because the people on the ship were made of meat, and the mermaids had empty stomachs that they wanted to fill. That was how you found things, in the sea. Be delicious. That was all you ever had to do.”

— Mira Grant

104. “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

105. “I’m a mad scientist. We don’t need lip gloss. We have jumper cables.”

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

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107. “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?”

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108. “Science is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it doesn’t care whether it hurts you. Fire warms us, cooks our food, protects us from predators, but it will burn us if we let it. Fire is more than happy to eat us all alive. Science is fire writ large.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

110. “People crave fear.”

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111. “That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.”

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112. “All scientists are mad scientists. It’s just a question of how long you can keep yourself from starting to look thoughtfully at the nearest thunderstorm.”

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113. “There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.”

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114. “We’re all going to wake up any day now, and this will all be a dream. Until then, why don’t we enjoy the chance to live in a science fiction novel?”

— Mira Grant

115. “He’ll die first, we both know it, but I don’t know... I really don’t know how long I’ll stay alive without him. That’s the part Shaun doesn’t know. I don’t intend to be an only child for long.”

— Mira Grant

116. “The dog – Beverly – looked up at me with warm, trusting brown eyes. I was a human. I had her leash, and I knew her name. Clearly, I was going to make everything okay. It must be nice to be a dog.”

— Mira Grant

117. “Know your enemy. That’s what freedom really means.”

— Mira Grant

118. “That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe.”

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119. “Oh, dear God – ” “Pretty sure God’s not here just now. Leave a message. Maybe He’ll get back to you.”

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120. “Science always starts out looking like insanity, darling; that’s why the phrase ‘mad science’ gets bandied about so much. But what seems like madness at its inception will become the way things have always been if you give it enough time.”

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121. “The only reward you get for making it to the end is making it to the end – you get to know the truth, and that’s it.”

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122. “I’m a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.”

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123. “Dolly Parton was a hero of the Rising, and I dare you to tell any red-blooded American girl who’s ever felt bad about her wardrobe differently,” said Governor Kilburn.”

— Mira Grant

124. “See, Quentin, that’s why you should wear a cup before trying to assassinate someone.”

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125. “When you’re going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.”

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126. “There are people who will tell you that the ends justify the means, right up until they’re talking about their own ends. Then, suddenly, morals and ethics matter. Funny thing, that. – Dr. Shannon.”

— Mira Grant

127. “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

128. “Sometimes I wonder if this is how God felt. And then I wonder why He didn’t just let us all burn. –DR. RICHARD JABLONSKY.”

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129. “Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I’m really excited to have back on the air.”

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130. “George, she says it’s the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.”

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131. “Humanity destroys the things it loves. Something mysterious and unique enough to be the source of mermaid legends? We’re going to be all over destroying that.”

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132. “None of my remedial education classes covered how to escape in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.”

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133. “To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods. If these truths mean the world is less comforting than it might have been, it seems like a pretty small price to pay.”

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134. “Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.”

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135. “I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.”

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136. “We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don’t need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.”

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137. “You can’t win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.”

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138. “There was something about seeing a woman rise up out of the depths that could thaw the skepticism of even the most hardened heart.”

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139. “Pardon me for arguing, Dr. Thomas, but I’m a clone living in a post-zombie America. I’m pretty sure not asking for potential weapons would be a much worse sign.”

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140. “This story is going to be told. I can’t stop it. Neither can you. But what I can do, what I have the power to do, is to ask you if you’ll let me tell it the way you want it told. If you’ll let me tell the truth.”

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141. “I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.”

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142. “Each new wave of humanity found itself crashing onto a beach that was a little more cluttered from what had come before, a little more damaged from the carelessness of others.”

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143. “Georgia Mason had too much indignation for a single lifetime,” I said. “She had to come back, if only so she could correct the accounts of her death.”

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144. “Gail Mitchell was a microcosm of the human race, of the thousands of people who would look at us and see their children, friends, and lovers turned into monsters and turned against them.”

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145. “I’m a mad scientist, aren’t I? We all have master plans. Without them, we’d just be fairly disgruntled scientists who think we really ought to form a committee to discuss our grievances.”

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146. “The only way anyone ever knows what matters to them is by losing it. If losing something breaks you in a way that can never be repaired, then that was what mattered. Now you know. Congrats. Try to live with it.”

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147. “Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.”

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148. “The truth will make you free, but it won’t make you particularly wealthy.”

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149. “That’s Becks. Always ready to offer a helping headshot.”

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150. “Money talks, and people like science that seems just a little bit insane. It reminds them that the future is tomorrow, and that we have a chance to shape it.”

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