Jonathan Maberry > Quotes

“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

“I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

“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

“No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“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

“Revenge is an infection of the spirit.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“They won the war but lost the peace,”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“That's stupid."
"That's people.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

“We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“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

“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

“You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Suffering is easier to endure when shared.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“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

“It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“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

“Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin