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“The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.”
“...his vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.”
“All myths have a basis in fact”
“The more I know about people, the more I love zombies.”
“No more room in hell? Fuck that, I made a reservation!”
“I wasn't the only one hungry on the road, it seemed; a single biteeven a minor scratchfrom one of the infected, and we were as good as dead. (And so the cycle repeats.)”
“...So I put it out of its misery, if it really was miserable, and tried not to think about it. That was another thing they taught us at Willow Creek: don't write their eulogy, don't try to imagine ...”
“Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!”
“There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor cars, on bridge-whist and post-mortems, on moving pictures and potboile...”
“a bar he sometimes sneaked into called The Slab. (They served bloody marys and zombies stiff drinks they called them and the jukebox only played dirges. A spotlight pinned dead go-go boys in cage...”
“Happy but isn't the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individu...”
“No, we wern't telling Teresa. Because she had that same smell on her skin too, that dead hoocow's awful sterile rot, and until I had some answers to throw in her face I was pretending everything wa...”
“Nine years ago I was alive. Nine years ago Jessica Anne Porter was fifteen years old.”
“All of Europe, as far as we knew, was gone. It might as well not be there anymore. Russia was gone. By the time you got to wondering where America went there just wasn't any more room for it in you...”
“Maybe theyre not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.And that bett...”
“I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster w...”
“Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.”
“Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.”
“New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.”
“Be nice to her,” I muttered under my breath. “She’s my sister; she got sick. She lost her kid. For all I know, she may have eaten her.”
