Mike Smith > Mike's Quotes

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
- Joseph Heller”
― Blake Crouch, Pines

“The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

“I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“It's terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches off into a new world.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Horror writers are specialists in the worst-case scenario.”
― Richard Laymon

“Books are dangerous. They pull you in and make you fall in love or totally destroy you. For the time being of course. Then you finish it and those feelings linger around in agony until you start another and the whole process happens again.”
― Emily Goodwin, Stay

“You have two choices: You can focus on the things that break your heart, or you can focus on the things that keep it together. No matter what, it’s up to you.”
― Emily Goodwin, Deathly Contagious

“no good deed goes unpunished.”
― Emily Goodwin, Stay

“life is too short to not take chances. I’d rather go to bed at night thinking I can’t believe I did that than wishing I had. You tend to regret what you don’t do more, after all.” “If”
― Emily Goodwin, Hot Mess

“Chaos is only chaos to the people who aren’t expecting it.”
― Jeremy Robinson, Island 731

“But your ability to forgive is worthless if you cannot turn it upon yourself. If you do not, the darkness you seek to defeat will eat you from the inside.”
― Jeremy Robinson, The Last Hunter: Collected Edition

“Choosing to narrow reality into a single belief system, based solely on human experience, seems insane to me. And”
― Jeremy Robinson, Infinite

“Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...'

You dare not.'

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“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

“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

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

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

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

“Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Language.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future. . .you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me. . .what choice do you want to make now?”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dust & Decay

“Even though a lot of people died, a lot of heroes were born. Often it was the most unlikely of 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