Jonathan Maberry Quotes

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It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.

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He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.

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Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.

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There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

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She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.

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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

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Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

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Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

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The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

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Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it."... "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

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No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.

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I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

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There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

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When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

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They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.

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It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

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Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.

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I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

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My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

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Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

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Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

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When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

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Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

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Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

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Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!

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You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

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This one looks good, said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. 'Pit Thrower.' What's that? I don't know, Chong said with a mouth full of toast. I think it has something to do with barbecuing. It didn't.

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Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

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But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

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Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

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