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Dust & Decay

Jonathan Maberry

Top 10 Best Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.”

“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.”

“It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.”

“It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.”

“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.”

“Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.”

“Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.”

“How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.”

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Book Keywords:

fear, hatred, rage, guilt

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