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Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1) QUOTES

Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1) QUOTES

1 " They won the war but lost the peace, "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

2 " Revenge is an infection of the spirit. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

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

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

5 " We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

6 " Benny Imura couldn't hold a job, so he took to killing.
It was the family business. He barely liked his family-and by family he meant his older brother, Tom-and he definitely didn't like the idea of "business". Or work. The only part of the deal that sounded like it might be fun was the actual killing. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

7 " There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

8 " Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

9 " Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

10 " The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

11 " That's stupid."
"That's people. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

12 " I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy...or maybe it's compassion...is the wrong choice. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

13 " Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

14 " Suffering is easier to endure when shared. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

15 " You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

16 " There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

17 " Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

18 " Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

19 " This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning.
Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?”
“I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.”
It didn’t. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)

20 " Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)