Quotes by Jonathan Maberry

About Jonathan Maberry:

Jonathan Maberry is an American author of horror fiction who has won multiple Bram Stoker Awards for works such as Ghost Road Blues (2006), Rot & Ruin (2010), and the young adult novels Dust and Decay (2011) and Flesh & Bone (2012).

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So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?" "That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future. . .you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell m...

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Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes mispla...

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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

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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 have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give h...

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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.

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I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

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The economy blows, or don't you read the papers?" "Who reads the fucking papers? News is free on the internet.

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Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

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It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

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She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill zone even while firing guns from both hands during a cartwheel. "You look fucking ridiculous," sh...

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Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines. Benny had left his footprints in the dust of that ...

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He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.

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He's a ghost, not a carnival magician. -Benny Imura

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There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

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Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

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Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

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They won the war but lost the peace,

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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 world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

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...as of this moment there's the police department way, the federal law enforcement way, the military way... and my way. If you want me to function at my best then you're going to have to accept that I'm going to have to make up some of my own rules....

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There were more of out there. More walkers. And I was being asked to step up and be... what? Some kind of Captain Heroism who would lead the boys in the Red, White, and Blue to victory? What was I getting myself into? This wasn't task force duty, thi...

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Author Bio

NameJonathan Maberry
DescriptionWriter
BornMay 18, 1958
ProfessionWriter