Michael Grant famous quotes

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.
-- Michael Grant

#Sheep #Sushi #Sticks

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.
-- Michael Grant

#Food #Giving #Way

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about
-- Michael Grant

#Men #Ideas #Life Is

Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong.
-- Michael Grant

#Faces #Murder #Moses

Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few miles away on the island. The logical, rational answer was obvious. "Which is why the world stays messed up," Caine said under his breath. "People aren't rational." He took a few deep, steadying breaths, and prepared to die for power.
-- Michael Grant

#Beautiful #Girl #Islands

Here's the thing: I am not beautiful. I'm pretty. I'll allow that much. Pretty. But I'm not the girl boys long for.
-- Michael Grant

#Beautiful #Girl #Boys

She was scared. Scared of dying.
-- Michael Grant

#Dying #Scared

It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.
-- Michael Grant

#Black #Giants #Fitting

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.
-- Michael Grant

#Fear #Eye #Able

Penny said two words, the second of which was "you." Caine laughed. "I think you meant '---- you, Your Highness.
-- Michael Grant

#Thinking #Two #Pennies

To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.
-- Michael Grant

#Eye #Past #Mind

Quinn sat back down. He leaned forward, elbows on knees. "Man, don't you remember taking tests in school? Multiple choice: A, B, C, D, or E, all of the above. "Yeah?" "Dude, sometimes the answer is 'all of the above.' This places needs you. And it needs Astrid. And it needs Sam. It's all of the above, Albert.
-- Michael Grant

#School #Men #Choices

No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch." "Good," Sanjit said. "Good? Why good?" "Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you.
-- Michael Grant

#Hands #Want #Scratches

It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'" "That's great," Lana said. "Invincible. I can't be vinced." "That's not even a word," Lana said. "Go ahead: try to vince me," Sanjit said.
-- Michael Grant

#Mean #Names #Trying

There's a lot youdon't know, Sam. There's a lot I don't tell you. I know who I am. I know what I do, and what I am to this place.I know what I am to you, and how much you depend on me.You may be the symbol, and you may be the one everyone turns to when something goes bad, and you're the big badass, but I'm the guy doing the day-in, day-out work of running things. So I don't make this about me.
-- Michael Grant

#Running #Fear #Badass

It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me.
-- Michael Grant

#Fear #Favors #Remember

Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.
-- Michael Grant

#Beautiful #Song #Book

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.
-- Michael Grant

#Fire #Marshmallow #Behinds

And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed.
-- Michael Grant

#Mean #Towns #Wheels

Paranoia," Sam muttered. "You're going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you're talking to yourself.
-- Michael Grant

#Nuts #Talking #Paranoia

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
-- Michael Grant

#Fear #Might #Possibility

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.
-- Michael Grant

#Cute #Couple #Cutting

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.
-- Michael Grant

#Doctors #Gone Series

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.
-- Michael Grant

#World #Fool #Poor

She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die
-- Michael Grant

#Blood #Escaping #Palms

I came up with myself. FAYZ. Spelled F-A-Y-Z. It stands for Fallout Alley Youth Zone. Fallout Alley, and nothing but kids." Howard laughed his mean laugh. "Don't worry, Astrid, it's just a FAYZ. Get it? Just a FAYZ.
-- Michael Grant

#Mean #Kids #Worry

He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people.
-- Michael Grant

#People #Scary #Different

It's over, Sam. Finally." "Yeah," he said. "I guess it is." "Turn out the light, Sam." Sam reached for the switch and turned out the light.
-- Michael Grant

#Light #Said #Yeah

You are now free to leave the FAYZ.
-- Michael Grant

And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.
-- Michael Grant

#Boys #Voice #Mouths

Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her.
-- Michael Grant

#Mother #Hurt #Looks

Shutup,Caine," Edilio said in a voice so soft it was almost a whisper. Anger, a dangerous anger, flared in Caine. "Who are you to talk to me that way?" "You've been the problem, Caine. From the start. You're the one who kept us from ever really being able to unite, to fight this thing, You and your stupid need to control everyone. Don't you come here now all sheepish, all head hanging down and tell me you're scared." Edilio stabbed a finger in Caine's chest. It was such a un-Edilio moment it surprised them both.
-- Michael Grant

#Stupid #Fighting #Voice

There's a plan B? Jack asked. "You're another," Edilio snapped. "You're not going to tell me again that you won't fight, because I swear to God I'll shoot you myself.
-- Michael Grant

#Fighting #Plan B #Plans

Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.
-- Michael Grant

#Falling In Love #Fate #Creation

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.
-- Michael Grant

#Real #Interesting #Parent

An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel? No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten.
-- Michael Grant

#Running #Couple #Cat

Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.
-- Michael Grant

#Mother #Faces #Pennies

The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair. He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing. Just sat.
-- Michael Grant

#Warrior #Boys #Hair

He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.
-- Michael Grant

#Paper #Wikipedia #Found

They both smiled at the picture of Albert in his chinos and button-down shirt exhorting kids from atop a bike.
-- Michael Grant

#Kids #Buttons #Shirts

Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.
-- Michael Grant

#Boys #Self #World

Why are we doing this?" Caine asked him. "You know damned well why we're doing this. Because it's a fight. It may be THE fight. I may be the final fight. And what else are we good at, you and me? What are we going to do if we ever get out there anyway?
-- Michael Grant

#Fighting #Finals #May

Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.
-- Michael Grant

#Good Person #Said #Diana

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.
-- Michael Grant

#Kings #Men #Land

Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?" Caine shook his head. "No, I have not." "Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have.
-- Michael Grant

#School #Long #Would Be

Say it. But..." "But what?" he asked. She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only if its the truth, Caine. Only. If." "I love you," he said.
-- Michael Grant

#Love You #Vulnerable #Said

Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes." Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, "Would I have to be hearing you two going at it night and day?
-- Michael Grant

#Night #Two #Hearing

Slice and Dice, Slice and Dice
-- Michael Grant

#Dice