The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.

Mira Grant

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Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.

lessons three said

How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

nimble three light

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

zombie shooting moving

Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing o... by Mira Grant

Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain.

news pain luck

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed. by Mira Grant

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

immortal annoyed facts

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need t... by Mira Grant

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

loses ifs needs

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not f... by Mira Grant

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

running needs

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.

smell weakness past

Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too.

worry rose people

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.

upset long people

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a... by Mira Grant

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

aliens brother cute

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was h... by Mira Grant

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.

offers

Crazy gets all the knives. by Mira Grant

Crazy gets all the knives.

knives crazy

That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe.

ponds dream thinking

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever. by Mira Grant

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

hysteria energy forever

Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.

differences talking thinking

Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.

practice average giving

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

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

tybalt make-sense cat

October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after ‘tending to some business at the Queen’s Court.’ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, it’s your manners. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

queens silence sleep

I'm not body-shy -- it's hard to grow up in the Summerlands, where clothes are solidly optional, and stay body-shy -- but that doesn't mean I enjoy nudity. Naked people are, by definition, unarmed.

clothes growing-up mean