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"I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked."
"Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start."
"Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead."
"What happened?” she breathed, staring at me. “I got hit in the face with a pie,” I said. Mags stopped, blinking. “You got...hit in the face with a pie,” she repeated. “I...what? I’m sorry, but I’ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human.” “It was a really evil pie,” I said."
"Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep."
"You are covered in blood," Tybalt said again, stressing the words harder this time. "It makes me tense." There was a thud as the guard hit the floor, and Tybalt returned to my side. "Wow. You must be tense a lot." He sighed. "You have no idea."
"And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve."
"Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things"
"No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along."
"Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot."
"Since Dominic's been sleeping with me, the mice have been trying various labels on him, looking for one that fits. My personal favorite was the week they spent calling him "the God of Absolutely Never Smiling, No, Not Ever."
"I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less."
"Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it."
"That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?"
"Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens."
"He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question."
"Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor."
"I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense."
"That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand."
"Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything. I've got mine. Do you?"