Jonathan Maberry Quotes

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• But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
• A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.
• His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as…
• He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's…
• Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was…
• When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your…
• There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single…
• There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like…
• I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a…
• They won the war but lost the peace,
• Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.
• Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are…
• They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both…
• This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?” “I don’t know,”…
• That's stupid." "That's people.
• Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather…
• It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.
• We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.
• Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't…
• Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

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