Top 280 Mira Grant Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It’s a hard world these days, and no matter how hard we try, it just keeps on getting harder.”

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

— Mira Grant

153. “This was it: this was the moment where I would have to decide whether I wanted to be the girl I’d always been, or whether I was ready to become someone new. Someone who was brave enough to crawl into the dark alone, and see where the risk would take her. Someone who was going to survive.”

— Mira Grant

154. “There’s only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.”

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155. “Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you’re living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?”

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156. “I swallowed the urge to sigh. Sometimes it can be easy to forget that I don’t really work with anyone my own age. Except on the rare occasions where Joey or Danika decide to call me up for a chat, I am the lone adult in a sea of children, like Captain Hook finally taking full responsibility for the Lost Boys after getting rid of that loser Pan.”

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

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158. “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.”

— Mira Grant

159. “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.”

— Mira Grant

160. “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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161. “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.”

— Mira Grant

162. “Sometimes science was the closest thing to the sword of an avenging angel humanity was ever going to get.”

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163. “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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164. “Madness is surprisingly freeing.”

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165. “Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

167. “Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation. There were worse things to be than fictional.”

— Mira Grant

168. “Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.”

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169. “At least you know that you’re crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.”

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170. “My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man – in this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun – holding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a horror movie.”

— Mira Grant

171. “I’ve done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy.”

— Mira Grant

172. “Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it’s definitely never boring.”

— Mira Grant

173. “Failure to die is always appreciated.”

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

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175. “Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.”

— Mira Grant

176. “So this is fun. This is a fun time.”

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177. “There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.”

— Mira Grant

178. “People who can’t hack it as Irwins because they’re too violent go into the air travel industry.”

— Mira Grant

179. “I’ll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.”

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180. “You’re crazy. You know that, right? I mean, Shannon says it’s not a good word to use, because sometimes people who aren’t crazy point it at people who are and use it like a weapon, but I figure we’re both crazy, so that makes it okay.” I was.”

— Mira Grant

181. “Humans have always preferred to live their lives? by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night vision, and it wasn’t until I got older and more cynical that I realized it was because they have less to be afraid of during the day.”

— Mira Grant

182. “No matter how comfortable I felt at SymboGen, I needed to remember how good they were at taking things and reducing them to their lowest common denominator.”

— Mira Grant

183. “That’s the beauty of the future. We get to change it.”

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184. “Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.”

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185. “It is what it is. Isn’t that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.”

— Mira Grant

186. “Humanity has always been disturbingly happy to sacrifice its future on the alter of right now.”

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187. “Home sweet self-destructive emotionally abusive home.”

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188. “When someone kills an American citizen, we don’t say, ‘Oh well, we killed one of theirs last week; we’re calling it even,’” she said. “We declare war. We sweep civilizations off the face of the globe. They won’t care that they started it. They’re only going to care who finishes it, and to be honest, I’m not sure it’s going to be us.”

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189. “Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.”

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190. “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.”

— Mira Grant

191. “Once a door is open, you have to live with what’s on the other side.”

— Mira Grant

192. “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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193. “It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its bones, and then built it back up again. Dissection without death, discovery without destruction.”

— Mira Grant

194. “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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195. “More things we learned from the Rising: It’s hard to gentrify a city that’s on fire.”

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196. “This was where darkness went to live forever, growing deeper and more powerful as the eons passed it by.”

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197. “THE WOOD is dark and the wood is deep and the trees claw at the sky with branches like bones, ripping holes in the canopy of clouds, revealing glimpses of a distant, rotting moon the color of dead flesh.”

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198. “But if you want to know who the scariest person in the group is, look for the one who’s been fighting zombies without smearing her eyeliner.”

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199. “May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.”

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200. “Every mad scientist secretly dreams of playing God.”

— Mira Grant