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Deadline (Newsflesh, #2) QUOTES

Deadline (Newsflesh, #2) QUOTES

1 " I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

2 " When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

3 " It's better to go out with a bang and a press release than with a whimper and a secret. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

4 " Fuck this. Let's just blow some shit up. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

5 " The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

6 " I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

7 " I just don’t understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

8 " And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

9 " Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-seven years: with an idiot—in this case, Rebecca Atherton, head of the After the End Times Irwins, winner of the Golden Steve-o Award for valor in the face of the undead—deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

10 " You know what? Fuck it. Just fuck it. The Rising didn't manage to wipe out the human race, it just made us turn into even bigger assholes than we were before. Hear that, mad science? You failed. You were supposed to kill us all, and instead you turned us into monsters. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

11 " ...we were doing this...this weird circling thing, like we needed to figure out every single line of the script before we could even start the movie. I knew, and he knew, and we didn’t do a damn thing about it... It’s like we thought everything had to be perfect, or it wouldn’t work. Like it was a story. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

12 " I am tired of shooting zombie deer that wander past our safety zone. Well, okay. I'm not really tired of that part. That part is pretty cool. Suck it, Bambi. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

13 " The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

14 " I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human. And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

15 " The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

16 " I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

17 " Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

18 " A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

19 " Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?” asked Becks. “Is it a union requirement or something? "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)

20 " I suggest it’s time we head off to see the Wizard. The wonderful Wizard of Jesus We Are All So Fucked. "

― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)