The Rising Quotes

“That’s the human race. Always willing to slow down and look at the train wreck.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“She’s probably clinically insane, but she’s good people, and that’s harder to come by than sanity these days.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“You had a grenade in your pocket?” I asked, unsure whether to be impressed or horrified.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“It just meant my crazy was biding its time, waiting to strike when I was least prepared. You don’t go that far past the borders of Crazytown and come waltzing out unscathed.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“We really believed in what we were doing. It wasn’t our fault that we were wrong.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“If we’re all prepared to wander gaily off to our dooms, we should really get moving,”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“It’s nice how many common chemicals are just looking for an excuse to explode.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“Damn … right … I …” I lost my grasp on the sentence as the dark reached up to take me.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“Both of them knew how to use words to wound.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“We were a living attempt at exorcism.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“tired, cranky, and utterly content with the world.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“but there was a chance. That was more than I’d had before. I was going to hang on to it with everything I had.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“Smuggling is a time-honored human tradition. Make something illegal, create scarcity, and people will find a way to get it.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“Are you ready?” “No,” I said. “I’m pretty sure I’ve never been ready for anything that had to be prefaced with that question”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“Tactile hallucinations aren’t a good sign of mental health, but sometimes I feel like they’re the only things letting me keep body and soul together.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“That’s … almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“Sometimes the hardest thing about the truth is putting down the misassumptions, falsehoods, and half-truths that stand between it and you. Sometimes that’s the last thing that anybody wants to do. And sometimes, it’s the only thing we can do.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“I may not be good at lying, but oh, I know a lie when I hear one.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“Everything was perfect. Those are the worst dreams of all, because in the end, I can’t stay asleep forever.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“This world our home, this prayer our prison.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“I think I just had a minor psychotic episode or maybe a breakdown or something, but it’s cool; I’m feeling basically okay now,” I replied, closing the van doors. “You?”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“Octopuses are cute, in their own ‘nature did a lot of drugs’ sort of way.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“I think that if anything destroys the human race at this point, it’s going to be the human race itself.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“That gives her the ability to sound very reasonable, and the more reasonable she sounds, the more danger you’re in.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“My knuckles split on the fourth blow. I started feeling a lot better after that. I generally do. Pain clears the fog in my head, enough that I can think again. Besides, as long as I’m punching walls, I’m not punching people.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“The news marches on, whether you’re walking wounded or not. That’s one of the beautiful things about the news. It’s also one of the most frustrating.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“full of the rampant cheer only I was likely to recognize as his way of masking grief and fear.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“This: The truth isn’t scary. Not when you understand it, not when you understand the repercussions of it, and not when you aren’t worried that something’s being kept from you. The truth is only scary when you think part of it might be missing. And those people? They like it when you’re scared. So they do their best to sit on the truth, to sensationalize the truth, to filter the truth in ways that make it something you can be afraid of.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“his face flushing with religious fire.”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy

“So now that you’ve insulted our patriotism, our sanity, and our intelligence, how about we move on?”
― Mira Grant, The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy