Quotes from Jonathan Maberry

Nice to know I'm among friends...Shame none of 'em are mine.

That's when the screaming started.

The value of choice is not in the size of the action but in its effect

Grey had maintained a long and passionate affair with pain. He knew all her secrets.

Yippie ki-yay and all that shit.

I wanted to remake myself too. I wanted to whitewash my soul. I couldn't do it before the world ended. Not really. But every day since, I've been trying to be a new person. Not the thing my father made me...no, I wanted to be the man I should have been if the old world had shown me even a splinter of grace.

Generally, if you see Joe Ledger show up pointing a gun at you, I guess you start reexamining your conscience.

I was a monster before the Fall and I'm a monster now. A different kind of monster, sure, but then again it's a different world.

wrapped in shadows that rose up, towered over him, and fell crashing down as the sun moved through the sky and threw light in through the windows.

Bunny, Top and Cole kept themselves belted in and braced, because Lydia Rose drove like a maniac. "She's going to kill us all," yelled Cole. "Don't want to play the man card here," yelled Top, "but woman up." "'Woman up' is not a thing, you sexist freak.

Death walked everywhere and there was no one who didn't know the sound of the Reaper's voice.

They're politicians, and politics is about leverage, not about the truth.

You crazy or something?" growled Zucco. "It's come up in therapy.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. —NIELS BOHR

A 1998—and didn't there always seem to be a 1998 coin in every handful of change?—and a 2013. Still new looking even though it was a few years old now. The coins were still warm. Warmer now for

Sam," he said, "I knew what you were when you walked into my office." "Why? Because Cricket told you?" "Nope." "Then how? I didn't wear my 'I'm A Werewolf, Ask Me How' button today.

Ledger mapped out a plan. It was ugly, dangerous as hell, probably insane, and definitely suicidal. We all agreed to it. It had somehow become that kind of day.

You always this depressing or is it that crap you poured in your coffee? - Benny Imura to Rob Sacchetto

The line between immediate need and breaking the law is blurry at the best of times. And I'm not talking about the laws of states or nations. I'm talking about the laws of basic humanity.

I was never much of a believer, kid, but if there ever was a God, then He wasn't on the clock that night. That's something you can debate at Sunday school. For my part, I don't see much evidence of any divine hand in what happened.

He hefted it and winced. "Shit, this thing is heavy." "Thirteen pounds fully loaded," she said. "Don't be a pussy." "I have a bad back." "Really? I thought maybe you had menstrual cramps.

Riot: Close to three hundred million Americans have died, son, during the Fall and in the years after...How many have to croak before y'all consider it game over? Lilah: All.

Besides, it wasn't our generation who was defeated when the dead rose. I still believe there's a future, and I intend to be there to see it.

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.