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"Humans have always preferred to live their lives by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night vision, and it wasn't until I got older and more cynical that I realized it was because they have less to be afraid of during the day."
"Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses."
"My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago."
"The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy"
"Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying. Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours."
"At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover."
"October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to visit after ‘tending to some business at the Queen’s Court.’ I recommend wearing something clinging, as that may distract him from whatever he wishes to lecture you about this time. Hopefully, it’s your manners. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt"
"Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one."
"...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit."
"Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end."
"...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end."
"That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb."
"There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing."
"There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear."
"There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs."
"The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment."
"Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That’s the way it is for everyone."
"He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first."
"Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC."
"Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else."