Seanan McGuire Quotes

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Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot — in this case, my brother, Shaun — deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.

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Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

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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"...

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It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?

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We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.

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If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.

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Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

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If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

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I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.

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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.

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

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Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving

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If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.

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Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

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The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

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I guess in the end, it doesn't matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

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Even saying good-bye isn't enough. There's always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There's always going to be that one missing piece.

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This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world—more, we owe ourselves—the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.

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This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I'm pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby.

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Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.

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Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

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Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.

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I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It's a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

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Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.

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Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything. I've got mine. Do you?

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And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.

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

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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.

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Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

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Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.

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