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1 " ...brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar. "
― Mira Grant , Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus (Newsflesh, #3.4)
2 " And everyone knows I’m a mad scientist. It’s amazing what everyone knows, isn’t it? Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. But that’s neither here nor there. "
3 " Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. "
4 " It’s a hard world these days, and no matter how hard we try, it just keeps on getting harder. "
5 " Indiana Jones and the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, coming never to a theater near you. "
6 " We can raise the dead. We can cure cancer. We can make the world better in every possible way, save one: No matter how hard we try, we just can't cure stupid. "
7 " Good dogs should never be asked to prove that they’re good dogs. If there’s anything in this world that we should take on faith, it’s good dogs. "
8 " That was what separated us from the zombies. "
9 " I'm a mad scientist, aren't I? We all have master plans. Without them, we'd just be fairly disgruntled scientists who think we really ought to form a committee to discuss our grievances. "
10 " Tom, you’re with me. Bring the tranq gun, we don’t want to kill her, but if she so much as looks funny in my direction, you’re going to send her off to play with the magical pastel bunnies in the Shouldn’t-Have-Fucking-Done-That Meadow. "
11 " The lab isn't evil, it's ethically challenged. We do good things.I bet Frankenstein told himself the same thing. "
12 " Never yell in the middle of a mystery. It distracts people from the core issues—those being “What the fuck is going on?” and “How do we all get through this alive? "
13 " Some days I think the world as it is was invented just to fuck with us. And then I realize that doesn't make any sense at all, because it assumes a childish, vengeful God. If there is a God, He or She isn't a child. God is a scientist, and all this shit we're wading in is our agar. It's the only growth medium we're ever going to get. "
14 " One, you don’t know everything. Two, what you don’t know can absolutely hurt you. And three, someone’s getting fucked. The only question is, who’s wearing the strap-on? "
15 " I had been around long enough to understand that sometimes love doesn’t look like anything you would expect. "
16 " There are people who will tell you that the ends justify the means, right up until they’re talking about their own ends. Then, suddenly, morals and ethics matter. Funny thing, that. —Dr. Shannon "
17 " I’m a mad scientist, aren’t I? We all have master plans. Without them, we’d just be faintly disgruntled scientists who think we really ought to form a committee to discuss our grievances. "
18 " ...she was going to learn that the world was under no obligation to make sense either now or ever. Logic was a story we told ourselves to keep from going completely insane in the face of all the impossible things reality threw at us on a daily basis. "
19 " The first rule we were taught in medical school was “A cadaver is not a toy. "
20 " Logic was a story we told ourselves to keep from going completely insane in the face of all the impossible things reality threw at us on a daily basis. "