Top 280 Mira Grant Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

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

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104. “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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105. “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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106. “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.”

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

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108. “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

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

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

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113. “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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114. “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.”

— Mira Grant

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

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

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

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118. “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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119. “People crave fear.”

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

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

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123. “Mad science may be a little more fun and fancy-free than the boring mainstream kind, but that doesn’t make it more exciting on a day-to-day basis. If anything, mad science steals the excitement from a lot of things that should be exciting, like surprise fires, stabbing people with needles, and the occasional ceiling octopus.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

125. “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.”

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

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

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128. “There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.”

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129. “Places like this, times like this, they were never meant to last. They were one frozen moment in a falling catastrophe, and their beauty was that they’d existed, even if it was only for a little while, even if they’d never been really real.”

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130. “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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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. “For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing.”

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133. “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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134. “Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.”

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135. “Crazy gets all the knives.”

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136. “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.”

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137. “It’s always the ones who made the mess who talk about how cleaning it up should be a group effort – or better yet, how cleaning it up should be somebody else’s problem. It’s almost like the kind of people who break things for fun don’t care for being held accountable.”

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138. “No one’s ever come up with a universal color scheme for the apocalypse, and if ours wanted to come in neon and peppermint stripe, well. That was okay.”

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139. “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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140. “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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141. “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?”

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142. “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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143. “The world is out of order. It’s been broken since you came.”

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

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146. “We do pool parties and aquarium fundraisers and the occasional water park event, and every time we put on our tails and put ourselves on display for a bunch of people who want us to be real, we’re dragging the human race a little closer to remembering what it’s like to believe in happy endings.”

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147. “Asking scientists not to look into an open box was like asking cats not to saunter through an open door. It simply wasn’t practical.”

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148. “Seafood has less of an ecological impact, and pigs are smart,” said Tory. “You shouldn’t eat anything that knows how to play fetch. It’s rude.”

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149. “Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you’re at a loss.”

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150. “Madness is surprisingly freeing.”

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