Top 280 Mira Grant Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

204. “No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn’t be right.”

— Mira Grant

205. “Curiosity is what it looks like when you’re in love with the world.”

— Mira Grant

206. “Was there any reason in the world to expect a deep-sea predator with that many teeth to be friendly?”

— Mira Grant

207. “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

208. “Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.”

— Mira Grant

209. “Only Shaun would be totally miserable if I did that, because he’d follow me. He’ll always follow me, just like I’ll always follow him. That’s what being together means, right? Neither of us ever has to be alone.”

— Mira Grant

210. “I’ve seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.”

— Mira Grant

211. “He didn’t have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.”

— Mira Grant

212. “A martyr’s just a casualty with really good PR.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

214. “By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run – including a two-month stint at the dollar theater – I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.”

— Mira Grant

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

— Mira Grant

216. “Tansy had acted like a thug and reacted like a heroine, and if that wasn’t one of the best combinations I’d ever encountered, I didn’t know what was.”

— Mira Grant

217. “If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.”

— Mira Grant

218. “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.”

— Mira Grant

219. “Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.”

— Mira Grant

220. “Humanity had chosen the land over the sea millennia ago, and sometimes – when she let her mind wander, when she was romanticizing what she did and how she did it – she thought the sea still held a grudge. Breakups were never easy, and while humanity was hot and fast and had had plenty of time to get over it, the oceans were deep and slow, and for them all change had happened only yesterday. The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.”

— Mira Grant

221. “Don’t start. My mood stays better if you don’t start.”

— Mira Grant

222. “Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.”

— Mira Grant

223. “Being able to be presented with differing opinions on the same issue is one of the glories of a free media, and it should make people stop and think. But a lot of people don’t want to. They don’t want to admit that whatever line being touted by their idol of the moment might not be unbiased and without ulterior motive.”

— Mira Grant

224. “All scientists are mad scientists.”

— Mira Grant

225. “Science doesn’t always play nicely with the other children.”

— Mira Grant

226. “Life’s more fun when you take the chance that it might end.”

— Mira Grant

227. “Good,” said Olivia. She paused before asking, “May I have a hug, please? I don’t want to impose. But I very much want a hug right now.”

— Mira Grant

228. “Does everyone from England go to sleep the minute you load them into a car, or is that something that’s uniquely you?”

— Mira Grant

229. “Being a mermaid might seem like all fun and games, but it was a job like any other.”

— Mira Grant

230. “Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal.”

— Mira Grant

231. “Every person on this vessel was a story in the process of telling itself, and all of them were fascinating, and all of them deserved to be heard.”

— Mira Grant

232. “Any man who doesn’t believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.”

— Mira Grant

233. “The people who have the power want you scared.”

— Mira Grant

234. “George always said the first summer of the Rising was possibly the best example of human nobility that history had to offer, because for just a few months, before the accusations started flying and the fingers started pointing, we really were one people, united against one enemy. And we fought. We fought for the right to live, and in the end, we won. Sort of, anyway.”

— Mira Grant

235. “His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.”

— Mira Grant

236. “As long as there was life in the sea, there would be teeth.”

— Mira Grant

237. “Impulse control problems don’t usually come with a body count.”

— Mira Grant

238. “Wow,” said Fishy. “I don’t think I heard a single full stop in there. You know, when you start talking entirely in comma splices, you’re probably ready for a time-out and a tranquilizer.”

— Mira Grant

239. “She’s sleeping in the Ebola Room?”

— Mira Grant

240. “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

241. “Leave the dark places in the sea for fools and explorers.”

— Mira Grant

242. “I’d been surprised when I first realized that I found him attractive; that hadn’t happened to me before. The fact that he turned out to be handsome to other people was irrelevant.”

— Mira Grant

243. “I love him, and one day I’ll bury him, and until then, I’m going to be grateful that I’m allowed to watch him talk.”

— Mira Grant

244. “The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.”

— Mira Grant

245. “Yeah, well, right now? Right now, I think being crazy may be the only thing that’s keeping me sane.”

— Mira Grant

246. “Never steal another reporter’s story; never take the last of another reporter’s ammo; never mess with another reporter’s computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace “never” with “always”...”

— Mira Grant

247. “Do I think they found mermaids? Yes. Of course I do. And I think the mermaids ate them all.”

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248. “Oh, jeez. Is that a spleen?” “I think that’s a spleen, yes.”

— Mira Grant

249. “That was what separated us from the zombies.”

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250. “Science is a powerful force, but it will never be stronger than mankind’s capacity to be afraid of what we do not yet fully understand.”

— Mira Grant