Quotes from Jonathan Maberry

Yes, I am fully aware that I was acting like a moron. No, like a Trekkie who suddenly found himself in an elevator with Captain Kirk. I don't actually have many heroes, but when I go bromance I go full bromance.

My nerves were telling me this guy was half a keg short of a six-pack.

But most days he was able to tough it out. Yeah, she was a mess, but she was his mess, and he would love her, and he would deal with her shit because he loved her. No matter what, he loved her. Still, loving the girl was hard.

Well, she sure don't hold the deed on grief and loss, son. We all been mussed and mauled by bad times. But that girl's done gone and shut down. I met gray people with more personality." She tapped her temple with a finger. "I'm beginning to suspect there ain't nobody home.

each second that peeled itself off the clock and dropped onto that dirty bathroom floor.

watch Die Hard films until the day started making sense again.

No one is really who people think they are. It's unfair. When they give us nicknames and create a story for us, everyone expects us to be that person and to live up to that legend.

In the car sometimes I'd just start balling my eyes out.

It's horrible, and we humans, just as always, will be the cause. Screw up the water. Fuck up the air. Cut down the trees and shit on the world. We'll call it science. We'll call it sport.

Dez, on the other hand, was pure backcountry Pennsylvania; a blue-eyed blonde who could have been a model for fitness equipment if not for what JT personally viewed as an overactive redneck gene.

Stabbing is for suckers who want to die.

There is no such thing as an alternative fact," said Rudy. "The truth is only ever the truth. What changes is whether we accept it, even if it is inconvenient and contrary to the truth we'd prefer.

He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. ~ FDR

I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. —Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

We - society- inflict all sorts of injuries on people and then blame them for having scars. We sexualize and exploit and condemn them for being the living representations of our own desires. We use them and then blame them for being used

The four of them stared at me. Half an hour ago we were strangers and I was beating the crap out of them; now I was supposed to lead them on an urban infiltration mission against unknown odds and, very likely, plague-carrying walking corpses.

You see the fence as something keeping the zoms out. I don't. I see it as the thing that pens us in. We're trapped here. Trapped isn't 'alive.' Trapped isn't 'safe.' And it isn't 'free.

Distance is a liar. Perspective, on the other hand, is a brutally honest motherfucker. - Joe Ledger, "Hot Time in the Old Town

This wasn't about who liked who; this was a human being who did not deserve what happened to him.

He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

I don't do martial arts for trophies or for fun. I'm a fighter, and I train to win any fight I'm in. I don't believe in rules and I don't believe in fair fights. You want a fair fight, join a boxing club. I also don't believe in dying for my country. I have a kind of General Patton take on that: I think the other guy should die for his.

And they don't know what kind of raw, unfiltered hell they'd be stepping into if they try to break in here." Lindsey

I need sonsabitches that can hit hard, hit fast, and hit last .