359 Quotes by Mira Grant

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.

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?

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.

I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?

George always said the first summer of the Rising was possibly the best example of human nobility that history had to offer, because for just a few months, before the accusations started flying and the fingers started pointing, we really were one people, united against one enemy. And we fought. We fought for the right to live, and in the end, we won. Sort of, anyway.

The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?

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.

A martyr’s just a casualty with really good PR.

The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.