Quotes from Jonathan Maberry

If no laws applied to them, then no laws protected them either.

There are all sorts of monsters, Mister Crowley. Not all of them cast spells or have fangs.

but some people don't care as much about pain. They know it, they're used to it; it may not be an old friend, but it is an old companion.

I'm going to be dead for a long time. Let me be awake as much as I can for now.

H)ope was like a backstabbing friend. You could trust it sometimes, and then it would turn and drive its blade deep.

Sing it like the midnight wind, Sing it like a prayer; Sing it on to the way to hell, Them blues'll take you there. —Oren Morse, Dead Man's Song

What terrified her most was the thought that staying alive had become nothing more than a habit. That was it. A reflex action without further or deeper purpose.

No lloré por eso. Cada año mueren millones de personas. Puedo sentir compasión, pero ninguna pena personal. Como ocurre en el seno de una comunidad cuando un niño se cae en un pozo. Dos meses más tarde nadie se acuerda del nombre del niño. Tu vida no gira en torno a ese momento. No puede, porque si convertimos la muerte de cada persona en algo personal nos mataría a todos. Pero esto… esto es un momento que te cambia la vida de verdad. Igual que a ti.

The real world was never cool enough for anyone to accept a costumed supervillain. Which

Some people never want to be part of the solution. All they want to do is bitch and whine and create complications for other people. You

There are worse things that can happen to an enemy of the state than Gitmo. Hate to say it, hate it to be the truth, but there it is.

if you don't shut your mouth and work with us, then by the Lord Jesus, when we roll out of here in those buses I will personally tie you to the front grill, cover you with A1 sauce, and use you for bait. Look me in the eye and ask me if I'm joking.

Evil don't die. It just waits.

You, however, are a psycho bitch who shot my dog.

Denial is stupid. We're fighting the living dead. Would you prefer we call them 'undead citizens'?

The girl's eyes rolled high and he fell backward. Dez

People should be allowed to believe what they want to believe. If some of us have seen things that make us question the limits of the world and the possibilities of a larger world, then that's on us. It's ours to consider. To fear or not to fear as we each choose.

Every writer he ever met was a drunk

What is the good of becoming strong if love bares your flesh to the teeth of misfortune? Why risk loving anyone or anything when life is so frail a thing that a strong wind can blow it out of your experience?

Save words like 'sorry.' Save for the dead. Living don't need them.

Ahora ve despacio, chico. A la naturaleza no le gustan las prisas. —Sí, padre

But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.

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.

It was why Lilah did not fear death. So many of the people she loved were waiting for her there.