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“Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.”
“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...”
“Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.”
“Is there anything hotter than a cute guy who is also armed and dangerous? I think not.”
“The whole right side of his face was smashed in, concave forehead and crushed cheekbone and one eye bugging precariously from a broken socket. He was purplish-black, and dirty white: Maggots seethe...”
“So, if the zombies are coming to town, why exactly are we coming back here?Dont call them that.But they areNo, theyre not. Theyre mutants or science gone awry orsomething. Anything but zombies. How...”
“Little is known about the love lives of the undead. Really, past the brain-eating, reanimated corpse angle, not much is said for the zombies perspective. So they ate brainsbig deal! Sure, they were...”
“Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.”
“This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasnt on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.”
“A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.”
“My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as p...”
“Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?”
“He's barely said anything and I already know this guy is gross,' she told the girls. 'If the zombies come at us, we feed them him first.”
“For the first time in his life, Stony felt it. It ran like a hot wire, up from his spine, to the base of his skull. His mouth opened on its own.He wanted to bite. He wanted to bite hard.”
“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. Shes my sister; she got sick. She lost her kid. For all I know, she may have eaten her.”
“...brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.”
“I did what I had to do. Now he's motivated.""Yeah, sure, motivated to s**t his pants maybe," Luke point out.”
“Zombies are the ideal late twentieth-century monsters. A zombie is the one thing you can't deal with. It survives anything. Frankenstein's monster and Dracula could be sent down in so many ways. Zo...”
“We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.”
