110+ Mira Grant Quotes On Education, Marriage And Her

Mira Grant is a pseudonym used by American author Seanan McGuire. She is best known for her Newsflesh trilogy and the Parasitology series. She has written numerous other works of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Mira Grant on love, education, marriage.

Top 10 Mira Grant Quotes

1. The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
2. 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." - Becks
3. My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.
4. Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.
5. 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.
6. I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head
7. Sorry...I got distracted listening to you and hot glued myself to my unicorn
8. I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.
9. I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.
10. Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too.​

Mira Grant Short Quotes

• We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.
• The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?
• Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality
• Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.
• When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
• You can't kill the truth.
• There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.
• Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.
• Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.
• I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.

Mira Grant Quotes About Love

Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family. — Mira Grant

There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog. — Mira Grant

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid. — Mira Grant

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. — Mira Grant

Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker — Mira Grant

Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That’s the way it is for everyone. — Mira Grant

Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love. — Mira Grant

We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be. — Mira Grant

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from. — Mira Grant

By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love. — Mira Grant

Mira Grant Quotes About Zombies.

Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens. — Mira Grant

I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years? — Mira Grant

We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us. — Mira Grant

The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win. — Mira Grant

Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving — Mira Grant

Mira Grant Famous Quotes And Sayings

A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough. — Mira Grant

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time. — Mira Grant

The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night. — Mira Grant

Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really. — Mira Grant

If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose. — Mira Grant

I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put your hand in the alligator,” while terror says, “Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist. — Mira Grant

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. — Mira Grant

I'm not body-shy -- it's hard to grow up in the Summerlands, where clothes are solidly optional, and stay body-shy -- but that doesn't mean I enjoy nudity. Naked people are, by definition, unarmed.​ — Mira Grant

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours. — Mira Grant

We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown — Mira Grant

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt — Mira Grant

There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into. — Mira Grant

This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free. — Mira Grant

It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself. — Mira Grant

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? — Mira Grant

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. — Mira Grant

It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason — Mira Grant

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had. — Mira Grant

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense. — Mira Grant

You are covered in blood," Tybalt said again, stressing the words harder this time. "It makes me tense." There was a thud as the guard hit the floor, and Tybalt returned to my side. "Wow. You must be tense a lot." He sighed. "You have no idea. — Mira Grant

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope. — Mira Grant

He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around." "Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?" Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn't around. — Mira Grant

...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end. — Mira Grant

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. — Mira Grant

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead. — Mira Grant

Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one. — Mira Grant

This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I’m pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby. — Mira Grant

I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human. — Mira Grant

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it. — Mira Grant

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear. — Mira Grant

Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?” asked Becks. “Is it a union requirement or something? — Mira Grant

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons. — Mira Grant

There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs. — Mira Grant

I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been. — Mira Grant

When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight. — Mira Grant

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens. — Mira Grant

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question. — Mira Grant

Blood is one thing, but that’s not all that goes into family. The family you choose is the family that really matters. They’re the ones who’ll keep you standing. — Mira Grant

Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out. — Mira Grant

Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening? — Mira Grant

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. — Mira Grant

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. — Mira Grant

That's Becks. Always ready to offer a helping headshot. — Mira Grant

Madness is surprisingly freeing. — Mira Grant

At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover. — Mira Grant

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed. — Mira Grant

Didn't we talk about this?" "HAIL!" "That isn't an answer." I planted my hands on my hips. "Was there a reason for shoving the gummy bears off the counter? Did they tell you they were suicidal? On second thought," I raised a hand, palm out, "don't answer that. If the candy is talking, I don't want to know. — Mira Grant

I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked. — Mira Grant

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb. — Mira Grant

It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves. — Mira Grant

He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first. — Mira Grant

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity. — Mira Grant

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can. — Mira Grant

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. — Mira Grant

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror. — Mira Grant

Do we have to have the 'don't lie to the telepath' talk again? It won't take long. I say 'don't lie to the telepath, it never works,' you glare at me, and then you go find something you can hit. — Mira Grant

I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy. — Mira Grant

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. — Mira Grant

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along. — Mira Grant

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC. — Mira Grant

Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start. — Mira Grant

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​ — Mira Grant

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up. — Mira Grant

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had. — Mira Grant

Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I'm really excited to have back on the air. — Mira Grant

The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy — Mira Grant

Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always". — Mira Grant

Some people live where they work. Others just visit.​ — Mira Grant

Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again. — Mira Grant

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-light — Mira Grant

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it. — Mira Grant

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie. — Mira Grant

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing? — Mira Grant

She laughed like she'd just invented laughter.​ — Mira Grant

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror. — Mira Grant

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. — Mira Grant

There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was. — Mira Grant

We have to burn brightly. We can’t burn forever — Mira Grant

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever. — Mira Grant

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet. — Mira Grant

Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours. — Mira Grant

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal. — Mira Grant

My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You can learn anything you wish to know about me merely by licking you fingers." Tybalt laughed a little. "Yes, you may ask me a question. — Mira Grant

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy — Mira Grant

Life Lessons by Mira Grant

1. Mira Grant's work emphasizes the importance of being prepared for unexpected events, as well as the power of knowledge and research in ensuring survival.
2. She also highlights the importance of staying connected to the world around you, and the potential for individuals to make a difference in the face of adversity.
3. Finally, Grant's work demonstrates the power of hope, resilience, and determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.