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Zombicorns QUOTES

Zombicorns QUOTES

1 " I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

2 " Mia,' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.
She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

3 " Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

4 " I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realized
on some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:
I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwood
floors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granite
countertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely was
running his life. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

5 " They don't plant in rows because they're idiots,and they don't use farm equipment because they're idiots,and they don't plant in spring because they're idiots.. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

6 " Being a person, I had come to
realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people
do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other
people. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

7 " The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty
years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s
wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s
musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the
sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here
in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for
someone to remember them. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

8 " I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing
romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege
of being responsible for another. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

9 " My regret was immediate and permanent and useless. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

10 " The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

11 " I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

12 " I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

13 " I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

14 " The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me,
extinguishes me. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

15 " Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I don’t have AMRV, which means I still suffer from the cruelest disease of our species, terminal aspiration. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

16 " And so. And so I choose to go on serving it. I choose to go north, even though like every other direction, it is rationally without hope. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

17 " It’s a mad, mad world when your best friend is a dog and your second-best friend is an automatic rifle, but such was life in the Aze. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

18 " How you love your heroes when you are young and safe and the world has not ended. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

19 " Why do I want to take care of Mr. President, particularly when
he’s desperate like this? Sure, he has been useful—he has saved me
from many a newzie—but there aren’t many newzies left. And it’s not
like Mr. President has infected me with a virus that predisposes me to
want to care for him.
I think it’s because Mr. President is a symbol, and symbols
matter. Caroline liked to say that I was a sentimentalist. But sentiment
is really just an appreciation for the reality and signi"cance of
symbols—which is why I’m still here, and she’s not. "

― John Green , Zombicorns

20 " But what did I have left to contribute? Just this? Just being the last known pair of truly human eyes to look up into the sky and experience the ␣eeting ␣ush of hope? Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people. "

― John Green , Zombicorns