Mira Corpora Quotes

I record the events of my life, filling up one notebook after another. Maybe I'm not getting the details exactly right, but it doesn't matter. The strict facts hold no currency here. What counts is the saliva I just spat on this very sheet of paper. The thick gob slowly dissolves a small circle in the text and turns the words translucent. The ink starts to bleed. The fibers loosen. If you run your fingers along this paragraph, you'll find the site where I stabbed my thumb straight through the page. There is an entire world in that hole. ~ Jeff Jackson

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 ~ Mira Grant

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer. ~ Mira Grant

I grinned, revealing the gap where my left incisor had been prior to a nasty encounter with a man who thought that running a zombie dog fighting ring would be a great way to spend his twilight years. Ben alwasy says I'd be more photogenic and pull better ratings if I got it fixed, but Ben can stuff it. I don't have the time or patience to mess around with dentures and bridges, and given the odds and how I tend to do my job, I'll probably be a zombie someday. Being a zombie with unbreakable titanium implants in my mouth seems like an asshole thing to do. ~ Mira Grant

If there's a rating system for quality of hallucination, I can say I was definitely scoring pretty high ~ Mira Grant

say love is what keeps us together. The ~ Mira Grant

All the vital components that make a relationship successful, without any of the emotional messiness to drag it down. It's about respect, caring, and commitment. Shared goals and compatible priorities. It's about treating marriage like a partnership instead of some romantic fantasy. It's about two people liking each other. ~ Mira Lyn Kelly

Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you? ~ Mira Grant

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. ~ Mira Grant

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired? ~ Mira Bartok

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? ~ Mira Grant

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go? ~ Mira Sorvino

Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for "suntan" is "burn. ~ Mira Grant

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right. ~ Mira Grant

The commodification of beauty is an economic trap designed to enslave the modern woman. ~ Mira Jacob

I took his hand and shook it. Even with all the training I've had to desensitize me to the necessity of occasional contact with strangers, the gesture felt wrong. You aren't supposed to touch people you don't know. Not unless they've just demonstrated their infection status with a successful blood test, and maybe not even then. ~ Mira Grant

Indiana Jones and the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, coming never to a theater near you. ~ Mira Grant

Irwins are never more alive than when they're five minutes away from getting slaughtered. ~ Mira Grant

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did. ~ Mira Grant

No matter how comfortable I felt at SymboGen, I needed to remember how good they were at taking things and reducing them to their lowest common denominator. ~ Mira Grant

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical. ~ Mira Sorvino

Dolly Parton was a hero of the Rising, and I dare you to tell any red-blooded American girl who's ever felt bad about her wardrobe differently," said Governor Kilburn. ~ Mira Grant

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere. ~ Mira Nair

As always when she saw the kind and dreamy eyes of Dennis Mira, her heart gave a little tug. Just something about him, she thought, with his cardigans and mussed hair, bemused smile. ~ J.D. Robb

As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living. ~ Mira Grant

We're all broken, but thats how the light shines through. ~ Mira Monroe

Why can't you just say 'don't breathe the water' like a normal person?"
"Because I'm a doctor, and they teach us never to use little words where big ones will do. ~ Mira Grant

Humanity has feared the dark since time immemorial, and yet humanity has never experienced the dark, because it wasn't until recently - the age of cunning hands and clever machines - that the dark had been anything more than a whispering legend, a rumor of a nightmare. ~ Mira Grant

You're a miracle," he breathed.
"You're a miracle," the mermaid echoed, before it leaned up and carefully, almost delicately, ripped away his throat. ~ Mira Grant

I'm starting to think it was a mistake to introduce you to the whole gang," he said.
Rafe was still hitting on Layla; Layla was fighting with him, insisting that fairies didn't turn good people into monsters, they just exposed the monstrousness that was already there; and Freddie was doing his best to play peacemaker, or etiquette coach from 1850, or whatever he thought he was doing. Henley was watching the group from outside, leaning against the window, smoking a cigarette. Viv was sawing into an apple tart with a masochistic grin on her face.
"No wonder you're such a freak," Mira said finally. ~ Sarah Cross

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. ~ Mira Sorvino

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on. ~ Mira Nair

You're such a prude. It's pathetic."
Eesh.
"What I am is too much of a lady to say what you are. ~ Mira Lyn Kelly