Malorie
Josh Malerman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She remembers yelling, so much yelling, so much saying 'no no no, Tom, NO!' But if you tell someone "no" enough times, they start thinking "yes", just to hear something else, just to hear a different word, they start thinking YES.”
“But a madman at ease is safer than a sane woman unsettled.”
“Despite the behavior by some that she considered unfathomably dangerous only fourteen days ago, she also gets it. People in the new world fall into two categories: safe and unsafe. But who’s to say which lives the better, fuller life?”
“I was waiting for a literal message, I think. Waiting for a knock at the door, someone to come tell us it was over. It’s the ultimate fantasy for those of us from the old world, isn’t it? Word that the whole nightmare has come to an end?”
“You're caught." She said. "No better off than I am, but you don't deserve to watch me fail. You showed up uninvited and you took everything from us. You stole our sisters, our parents, our kids. You took the sky, the view, you took day and night. A look across the street. A glance out a window. You've taken a view, every view, and with that, perspective. Who do you think you are, coming here, taking, then siting silent, watching me go mad? I hope you're hurt. I hope you're stuck in here. I hope you get taken from you what you've taken from us. How can I be a mother in this world, your world? How am I supposed to feel, ever, in a world where my kids are allowed to look. They don't know me. My kids. They know a weathered, paranoid woman who cringes at every suggestion they make. They know a woman who says no so many more times than she says yes. A thousand times no. A hundred thousand times no. They know a woman who tells them what they're doing is wrong, every day, all night. I was different before you. My kids will never know that person. I'll never know that person again.”
“Whoever you meet, whoever we encounter, you have to remember that they’ve experienced loss. Whether it was their parents, their kids, their friends…they’ve lost someone to the new world. And you need to keep that in mind when they talk to you, when they sound like they don’t trust you, when they eye you like you’re the danger.”
“I’m fine,” Malorie yells. “I’m fucking fine.”
“But if you tell someone no enough times, they start thinking yes, just to hear something else, just to hear a different word, they start thinking yes.”
“Because Tom has been looking for a reason to leave this cabin since the moment she said they wouldn’t be leaving it anymore. Because Tom is at that damnable age where he believes he must resist every f*cking thing his mother tells him.”
“And Tom and Olympia both have pondered aloud, in their own ways, the worth of a life in which the only aim is to keep living”
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Book Keywords:
malorie, rebellion, teen-rebellion