Overgrowth Quotes

“This is a story. It can’t hurt you anymore”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“Humanity wasn’t all bad. It was self-destructive and contradictory and cruel, but it made good things, too.”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“I don’t know how to human correctly. But I’m pretty good at being a person. I have thoughts and feelings and opinions, and that’s enough to qualify. Right?”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“In customer service, questions always have a right answer. There’s right and there’s wrong, and it’s difficult to mix them up. People don’t work that way. With people, something can be the right answer once and the wrong answer every other time, forever. With people, the right answer changes.”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“Bullies are bullies, no matter how old they are, and they always find a way to blame the bullied for the consequences of their own actions.”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“We all had our own ways of coping in this changing, terrible new world.”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“Panic was such an easy habit to fall into. Fear was its own kind of drug, intoxicating, all-consuming. It wasn’t pleasant, but there was something tempting about it all the same. As long as we were afraid, as long as we were panicking, we didn’t have to think about while we were doing. All we had to do was run, rabbit, run for the horizon, and let the future sort itself out while we weren’t looking. How could anyone be expected to resist that sort of temptation?”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“No. Nothing was all right. It was possible nothing was going to be all right ever again: that we had passed the last moment of normalcy sometime in the past few weeks, and now it was gone forever.”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“That’s the trouble with people. You can never tell what’s happening inside them.”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“We had even signed a contract, agreeing that the day either of us struck the other would be the day we separated. Graham had held to it. So had I. And part of holding to it was knowing when to open space between us, to let the anger drain.”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“Sometimes that’s the only thing you can do: just look at the future racing toward you, and smile, and hope it doesn’t hurt when it arrives.”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth