Jonathan Maberry Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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