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“Science is not a matter of belief. Science does not care whether you believe in it or not. Science will continue to do what science will do, free from morality, free from ethical concerns, and most of all, free from the petty worry that it will not be believed. Belief has shaped the history of human accomplishment—we believe we can, and so we do—but belief has never changed the natural world. The mountain does not vanish because we believe it should. The unicorn does not appear because we believe it will.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a long, long fall.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“What you have to understand about the mermaid legend is that it's universal. No matter where you go, the mermaids got there first. Even inland, if there's a big enough lake, I guarantee you there's a local community with a story about women in the water with beautiful voices who lure men to their deaths.

Where there's water, we find mermaids. Maybe it's time we started asking ourselves exactly why that is.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Humanity had chosen the land over the sea millennia ago, and sometimes - when she let her mind wander, when she was romanticizing what she did and how she did it - she thought the sea still held a grudge. Breakups were never easy, and while humanity was hot and fast and had had plenty of time to get over it, the oceans were deep and slow, and for them all change had happened only yesterday. The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“As long as there was life in the sea, there would be teeth.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“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, Into the Drowning Deep

“She was a surface creature where surface creatures had no business being, and it delighted her.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Asking scientists not to look into an open box was like asking cats not to saunter through an open door. It simply wasn't practical.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“They were good people. Not dolphin-good, but human-good, which was almost good enough. They couldn’t fulfill the instinctive needs she had burning in her brain, the ones that told her to find a mate who wasn’t her brother or her uncle, to swim, to leap, to know. So she was here, with the deep black sea between her and her freedom.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“I thought maybe you'd wish for friends because you don't have any. We'll all be glad to see you die. No one's going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I'll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe we all will." - Garraty (to Barkovitch), The Long Walk”
― Richard Bachman

“They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?”
― Stephen King (Richard Bachman), The Long Walk

“When dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“He just kept picking them up and laying them down.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“But of course it had hurt. It had hurt before, in the worst, rupturing way, knowing there would be no more you but the universe would roll on just the same, unharmed and unhampered.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“You think just knowing about death will keep you from dying?”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to see that line got. Until finally there was nothing but smooth sand and the black hole of nothingness that you came out of.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk