"Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool."
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"No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right."
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"I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?"
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"When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from."
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"I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy."
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"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."
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"We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be."
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"Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear."
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"They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost."
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"Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away."
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"Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious discovery of pocket lint. It's impressive, but I'd rather watch him move. There's something wonderful about the way he lets go, becoming all energy and excitement as he outlines what's coming next. Maybe it's geeky for a girl my age to admit she still loves her brother. I don't care. I love him, and one day I'll bury him, and until then, I'm going to be grateful that I'm allowed to watch him talk."
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"Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking."
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"I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed."
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"Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet."
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"If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did."
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"His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up."
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"Never steal another reporter's story; never take the last of another reporter's ammo; never mess with another reporter's computer. Those are the rules, unless you work for a tabloid, where they replace "never" with "always"."
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"Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer."
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"Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right."
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"You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens."
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