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21 " I think I just had a minor psychotic episode or maybe a breakdown or something, but it’s cool; I’m feeling basically okay now,” I replied, closing the van doors. “You? "
― Mira Grant , The Rising: The Newsflesh Trilogy
22 " This world our home, this prayer our prison. "
23 " Are you ready?” “No,” I said. “I’m pretty sure I’ve never been ready for anything that had to be prefaced with that question "
24 " My knuckles split on the fourth blow. I started feeling a lot better after that. I generally do. Pain clears the fog in my head, enough that I can think again. Besides, as long as I’m punching walls, I’m not punching people. "
25 " Everything was perfect. Those are the worst dreams of all, because in the end, I can’t stay asleep forever. "
26 " This: The truth isn’t scary. Not when you understand it, not when you understand the repercussions of it, and not when you aren’t worried that something’s being kept from you. The truth is only scary when you think part of it might be missing. And those people? They like it when you’re scared. So they do their best to sit on the truth, to sensationalize the truth, to filter the truth in ways that make it something you can be afraid of. "
27 " Both of them knew how to use words to wound. "
28 " It just meant my crazy was biding its time, waiting to strike when I was least prepared. You don’t go that far past the borders of Crazytown and come waltzing out unscathed. "
29 " although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own machete and blood testing unit. "
30 " Tactile hallucinations aren’t a good sign of mental health, but sometimes I feel like they’re the only things letting me keep body and soul together. "
31 " The news marches on, whether you’re walking wounded or not. That’s one of the beautiful things about the news. It’s also one of the most frustrating. "
32 " I think that if anything destroys the human race at this point, it’s going to be the human race itself. "
33 " Smuggling is a time-honored human tradition. Make something illegal, create scarcity, and people will find a way to get it. "
34 " Sometimes the hardest thing about the truth is putting down the misassumptions, falsehoods, and half-truths that stand between it and you. Sometimes that’s the last thing that anybody wants to do. And sometimes, it’s the only thing we can do. "
35 " full of the rampant cheer only I was likely to recognize as his way of masking grief and fear. "
36 " You had a grenade in your pocket?” I asked, unsure whether to be impressed or horrified. "
37 " He and I have been friends outside of work for years, and it never hurts to encourage your friends to succeed. "
38 " but there was a chance. That was more than I’d had before. I was going to hang on to it with everything I had. "