Top 280 Mira Grant Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.”

— Mira Grant

152. “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.”

— Mira Grant

153. “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.”

— Mira Grant

154. “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

155. “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.”

— Mira Grant

156. “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.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

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

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160. “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.”

— Mira Grant

161. “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

162. “Kelly Nakata didn’t know much about what was going on, but she knew that once a dog starts biting for no good reason, it doesn’t tend to stop.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

164. “There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.”

— Mira Grant

165. “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

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

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

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168. “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

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

— Mira Grant

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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.”

— Mira Grant

173. “Never ask a mermaid if you can borrow her tail.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

175. “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

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

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

178. “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

179. “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.”

— Mira Grant

180. “Post-traumatic shock,′ said Shaun. ‘He thinks he’s a boa constrictor.”

— Mira Grant

181. “Madness is surprisingly freeing.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

183. “It’s a hard world these days, and no matter how hard we try, it just keeps on getting harder.”

— Mira Grant

184. “The seas are rising, the weather is changing, and Spindrift House is haunted.”

— Mira Grant

185. “Failure to die is always appreciated.”

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

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187. “The zombies are here, and they’re not going away, but they’re not the story.”

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188. “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.”

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189. “The first rule we were taught in medical school was “A cadaver is not a toy.”

— Mira Grant

190. “To learn more about parasites, check out Parasite Rex, by Carl Zimmer. There are many, many books on the subject, but his is one of the most accessible jumping-on points you’re likely to find. Welcome to the war.”

— Mira Grant

191. “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.”

— Mira Grant

192. “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

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

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194. “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

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

— Mira Grant

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

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

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198. “This time, the anger in her voice wasn’t there, and the tears were beginning to overflow her lower lids, starting their slow tracks down her cheeks. She looked old, and tired, and like the woman I’d only ever seen in pictures taken before I was even born. She looked like someone who could have loved me.”

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

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200. “Knowledge that can be imparted loudly and with passion always lasts longer than knowledge that has to be whispered.”

— Mira Grant