Mira Grant
Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.Collection: Suicidal
Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.Collection: Cute
In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.Collection: Defense
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. —TybaltCollection: Queens
I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.Collection: Cat
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.Collection: Average
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.Collection: Thinking
Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?Collection: Morning
I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.Collection: Mirrors
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.Collection: Ivory Tower
You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —TybaltCollection: Sleep
He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Choices
Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.Collection: Thinking
He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.Collection: Offers
Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.Collection: Lying
George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.Collection: Devil
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.Collection: Wall
Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.Collection: Kings
There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.Collection: People
I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.Collection: Kings
Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.Collection: Loss
You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.Collection: Dream
We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.Collection: Scene
Humans have always preferred to live their lives by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night vision, and it wasn't until I got older and more cynical that I realized it was because they have less to be afraid of during the day.Collection: Night
I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.Collection: Zero
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.Collection: Long
...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.Collection: Blood
Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't actually kill you with their brains. Give you a whopping headache and earworm you with annoying jingles, yes; kill you, no. (Although sometimes, when she's managed to stick "The Happy Banana Song" in my head for a week, I sort of wish she could kill people with her brain. It would be kinder.)Collection: Song
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?Collection: Life
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.Collection: People
There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.Collection: Viruses
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.Collection: Three
Failure to die is always appreciated.Collection: Appreciated
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.Collection: Dream
Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start.Collection: Mood
They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.Collection: Wall
Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.Collection: Running
Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.Collection: Girlfriend
Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious discovery of pocket lint. It's impressive, but I'd rather watch him move. There's something wonderful about the way he lets go, becoming all energy and excitement as he outlines what's coming next. Maybe it's geeky for a girl my age to admit she still loves her brother. I don't care. I love him, and one day I'll bury him, and until then, I'm going to be grateful that I'm allowed to watch him talk.Collection: Girl
She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.Collection: Saws
Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right.Collection: Paranoid
There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.Collection: Hate
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-lightCollection: Light
It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.Collection: Lying
Well, that’s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.Collection: Father
Tybalt’s what we call ‘Cait Sidhe’— the fairy cats. Which explains the attitude. And the eyes.” “Meow,” said Tybalt, deadpan.Collection: Attitude
I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - BecksCollection: Cute
I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.Collection: Cheese Sandwiches