Chimera Quotes

“We're all monsters...Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you're willing to eat the world if that's what you have to do to keep yourself alive.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“Science is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it doesn’t care whether it hurts you. Fire warms us, cooks our food, protects us from predators, but it will burn us if we let it. Fire is more than happy to eat us all alive. Science is fire writ large.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“Humanity has always been disturbingly happy to sacrifice its future on the alter of right now.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“Wow,” said Fishy. “I don’t think I heard a single full stop in there. You know, when you start talking entirely in comma splices, you’re probably ready for a time-out and a tranquilizer.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“I hate that word [insane]. All it means is 'you don't think like I do,' and by that standard, everyone is insane. It's a meaningless idea.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“We walk on the graves of our unborn selves, the futures we never got to live, and some of those people wouldn’t get along very well with the ones we actually decided to be.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“Having a home means having somewhere to go back to. Having a family means having someone to defend. Having a life means knowing you'll do anything to keep it.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“I don’t know how long I can do this before I go sane, and I can’t cope anymore.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“I guess I just want to do something amazing with my life. Isn’t that what everyone wants?”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“Gail Mitchell was a microcosm of the human race, of the thousands of people who would look at us and see their children, friends, and lovers turned into monsters and turned against them.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“Haven’t you ever noticed how when a man says one thing, and the woman says another thing, people will almost always believe the man is the one who’s telling the truth? Even if she has more proof than he does.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“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”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“In the long run, history will decide that I was in the right. But the here, right now, it's difficult to see that as anything other then a pretty dream in a world that isn't very forgiving of such things”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“It would be too much to ask to have a bra shop in this same strip mall, wouldn’t it?” asked Carrie. “I think they were a little too all-ages for lingerie,” I said, making a beeline for the nearest rack of sweaters. “If we pass a Target or something, we can go in and raid them for fresh bras.” “I bet guys don’t have this sort of problem after the apocalypse.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“Haven’t you ever noticed how when a man says one thing, and the woman says another thing, people will almost always believe the man is the one who’s telling the truth?”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“The broken doors are closed now; there is nothing left unknown. You are my dearest darling ones. Please don’t go out alone.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“Babies arrived covered in blood, didn’t they? Maybe dropping something tiny and helpless into the world with its own gravy was a terrible decision on the part of evolution.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera

“The thought was sobering. How many people’s motives didn’t match up with what I’d taken for their actions? How many villains were the heroes of their own stories? I didn’t know, and I was terribly afraid that I was never going to find out.”
― Mira Grant, Chimera