Top 280 Mira Grant Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Mankind has been forgetting this simple fact since the dawn of time: when we transgress, it is our children who must pay the price of those transgressions.”

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252. “Everything that’s loved lives.”

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253. “Good dogs should never be asked to prove that they’re good dogs. If there’s anything in this world that we should take on faith, it’s good dogs.”

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254. “Don’t feel sorry for me, now. It was for science, and as long as something is for science, it’s worth doing. It’s just not necessarily worth repeating.”

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255. “We forgot about them, but they never forgot about us. They always knew that somewhere out there they had competition, strange and soft and walking on two legs and defenseless in the water. Most of all, they never forgot that we were delicious.”

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256. “It smacked of mad science, and I should know, since I’m sort of a mad scientist’s devastatingly beautiful daughter and all- or maybe just her devastating daughter, since I’m pretty good at the destruction thing- and mad science never ended well for the people who woke up in chains.”

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257. “In the long run, history will decide that I was in the right. But the here, right now, it’s difficult to see that as anything other then a pretty dream in a world that isn’t very forgiving of such things.”

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258. “I’m a sea captain. I can afford to be a little eccentric.”

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259. “I was tired of being a haunted house’ he said. ‘Thank you for coming home.”

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260. “No, it’s the best time for jokes,′ said Olivia. She forced a weak smile. ‘Jokes remind us that we’re alive. And that your sense of humor is terrible.”

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261. “You mean I’m standing in a room with the Vice President of the United States, a member of the Secret Service and two renegade EIS scientists, and you expect the clone to make the decisions? See, this is why this country is in trouble all the damn time. The people running it are crazy.”

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262. “Haven’t you ever noticed how when a man says one thing, and the woman says another thing, people will almost always believe the man is the one who’s telling the truth? Even if she has more proof than he does.”

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263. “Heather was still a dreamer. She’d known she could never be an astronaut since she was a child, that no one would put a deaf girl into a rocket and tell her to reach for the stars, so she’d looked around until she’d found the next best thing, and then she’d done whatever she had to do to make it her own. She was one of the best in her field, and a lot of that was because after giving up on one dream, she ’d be damned before she gave up on another.”

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264. “I had been around long enough to understand that sometimes love doesn’t look like anything you would expect.”

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265. “Science was all about curiosity. It was a world where the kids who touched hot stoves and poked sticks down mysterious holes in their backyards could get better tools, protective gear, and bigger holes to poke at. 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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266. “You brought me a mouthy clone,” said Dr. Abbey, looking toward Shaun. “And it’s not even my birthday.”

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267. “Don’t bother asking me anything. I have committed my crimes. I have endured my penance for as long as I could. After tomorrow, I will not be available for you to ask.”

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268. “She was a surface creature where surface creatures had no business being, and it delighted her.”

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269. “We walk on the graves of our unborn selves, the futures we never got to live, and some of those people wouldn’t get along very well with the ones we actually decided to be.”

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270. “No offense, hon, but you flirt like it’s a form of espionage and you’ll be executed if you get caught.”

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271. “Someday you’re going to have to explain how it is you’ve managed to create a subconscious echo that’s smarter than you are.”

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272. “You are a ray of sunshine and I don’t know how we got by without you,” said Becks. I nodded sympathetically. “I’m sure it was hard. But it’s all right. I’m here now.”

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273. “She’s shaped her image of the world around someone else’s fantasy... Because it’s easier. It’s so much easier to say, ‘This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there’s an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we’ll all live happily ever after.”

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274. “That’s the danger of genius. One way or another, it’s going to destroy the world.”

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275. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.”

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276. “The trouble with discovery is that it goes two ways. For you to find something, that thing must also find you.”

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277. “I’m sorry, but you’re kinda losing me here. I’m happy to keep apologizing, but I do need to know what I’m apologizing for.”

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278. “She’s probably clinically insane, but she’s good people, and that’s harder to come by than sanity these days.”

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279. “There were always going to be people willing to trade a place in a cage for a gun and somebody they could point it at. No.”

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280. “It’s that zombie virus thing that was on the news!” shouted a man in a Starfleet uniform. It was Next Generation command red, but he was running away from the danger, not toward it. Maybe that was how the command crew stayed alive. “They’ll eat you if you stay here!” “They.”

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281. “Biology is tricky, Sal,” said Dr. Cale. “A lot of the rules are more like suggestions, or can be, if you come at them from the right angle, but you still want to break as few of them as possible. Break too many, and the chances that everything will go catastrophically wrong increase at an exponential rate.”

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282. “Science was competitive because it was full of scientists.”

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283. “You knew I was a scorpion when you picked me up, and I’ll always do my best to sting my way back to you.”

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284. “Nothing is worth the risk of being lost at sea.”

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285. “Stop trying to judge us based on what you know, and try judging on what’s actually around you. You might be surprised by how many things we don’t do the way you’d expect but that turn out to work just fine all the same. Think about it, won’t you?”

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286. “Do I give money to charity and help old-lady zombies across streets so that they can bite babies?”

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287. “Nature abhors a form that cannot be repeated.”

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288. “The last thing the media taught us in the old world was that we couldn’t trust them.”

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289. “It was a constant parade of little tasks, none of them insignificant enough to ignore, all of them inconvenient enough to become a trial.”

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290. “I understand that sometimes those who mean well will start making decisions about your mental health without consulting you, Mrs. North,” said Governor Kilburn. Her tone was gentle, but her left hand touched her right wrist in a way that was all too familiar to me. I’d seen that gesture before, during support group discussions, when people tried to explain their reasons for attempting suicide. “There’s no reason for that to be held against you now. Your past is a foundation, not a crime.”

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291. “Spindrift House has had a great deal of time to decide what it wants to be, and what it wants to be is unforgiving.”

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292. “Sometimes, there is no reason for things to go wrong. They just do.”

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293. “Food scarcity was not uncommon in the bathypelagic zones, and so they had learned to come up to the surface, to lure in prey with pleasant sounds as well as bright, fascinating lights.”

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294. “The fact that he was still smiling was either a testament to his training or an argument in favor of stimulants.”

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295. “There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.”

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