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1 " To learn more about parasites, check out Parasite Rex, by Carl Zimmer. There are many, many books on the subject, but his is one of the most accessible jumping-on points you’re likely to find. Welcome to the war. "
― Mira Grant , Parasite (Parasitology, #1)
2 " For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing. "
3 " Isn't reduced brain damage a good thing?' asked Nathan.'Oh, totally--I wish I had reduced brain damage, or at least, I wish bananas didn't taste like tangerines all the damn time--but this isn't the good kind of reduced brain damage. "
4 " Isn't that the justification used by every scientist who made something wonderful, only to discover that they've made something terrible? 'We did it for Science. "
5 " Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things. "
6 " I’m not insane, I’m neurologically variant,” she snapped back. “Sticks and stones, asshole. "
7 " All scientists are mad scientists. "
8 " No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along. "
9 " The broken doors are open—come and enter and be home. My darling girl, be careful now, and don’t go out alone. "
10 " Why are there so many words that sound exactly the same, only one of them is right and one of them is wrong, and if you use the wrong one everyone looks at you like you're stupid and then you need to stab somebody to make the point that there are a lot of different types of intelligence and anyway English is hard. "
11 " Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for “suntan” is “burn. "
12 " Nature doesn’t have to make sense. Nature just does. "
13 " Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal. "
14 " Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I'm really excited to have back on the air. "
15 " The line between “police force” and “army” is narrow under the best of circumstances. "
16 " Never ‘it,’ never ‘it,’ ” Marya chided. “None of God’s creatures is an ‘it,’ even if they’re not a boy or a girl or a mammal or a pretty bird. Call them ‘he’ or she’ and be a little wrong, but never take away their individuality like that. "
17 " Once a door is open, you have to live with what’s on the other side. "
18 " The world is out of order. It’s been broken since you came. "
19 " The dog—Beverly—looked up at me with warm, trusting brown eyes. I was a human. I had her leash, and I knew her name. Clearly, I was going to make everything okay. It must be nice to be a dog. "
20 " Money talks, and people like science that seems just a little bit insane. It reminds them that the future is tomorrow, and that we have a chance to shape it. "
