359 Quotes by Mira Grant

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.

Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation. There were worse things to be than fictional.

That’s the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

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.

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.

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.

I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.

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 is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.