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41 " The Masons may not have taught me much about how to treat a guest, but they taught me not to shoot at them unless it was absolutely necessary. "
― Mira Grant , Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)
42 " Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC. "
43 " ...You may think you’re doing the right thing, and hell, you may even be right, but when you don’t let anyone watch over your shoulder, how the fuck are the rest of us supposed to know? "
44 " …and Dave and I, we were doing this…this weird circling thing, like we needed to figure out every single line of the script before we could even start the movie. I knew, and he knew, and we didn’t do a damn thing about it…It’s like we thought everything had to be perfect, or it wouldn’t work. Like it was a story. "
45 " That's what humanity does when faced with wolves. We take them in, tame them, and teach them how to keep us safe. "
46 " A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. I'd rather be a living coward any day. "
47 " I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. I suppose that's true to everyone. Even the people we'd paint as the villains of the piece, given leave, doubtless consider themselves reasonable. It's a part of the human psyche. "
48 " People who can’t hack it as Irwins because they’re too violent go into the air travel industry. "
49 " 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. "
50 " That was the cold equation. How many lives is one person, even a totally innocent person, going to be worth? "
51 " But when the springtime turns to dust(A thousand shades of blood and rust)And everything is ash and stone(Contagion writ in blood and bone)Then what exists to have and hold?(What story, then, has not been told?)Let this be my sacred vow(O Mother Mary hear me now):I will not fail, I will not fall(Though Heaven, Hell and Chaos call).We are the children of the Risen.This world our home, this prayer our prison. "
52 " A sulking sister is better than a scolding sister. "
53 " The day was getting more interesting by the minute. I just had to hope it was the sort of interesting we'd live to talk about later. "
54 " If we're going to die horribly, we're all going to do it together. "
55 " Neither of them was wearing a face shield. That put grenades out until I could get them to move out of the blast radius, since aerosolized zombie will kill you just as sure as the clawing, biting kind. "
56 " Irwins are never more alive than when they’re five minutes away from getting slaughtered. "
57 " I figure I'll just keep on going the way I am until something starts making sense.""What if nothing ever does?""I guess if that happens, I'll start hoping all the God freaks are right, and there's some superior intelligence up there treating us all like laboratory rats. "
58 " The latest literature says we’re supposed to call them “post-Kellis-Amberlee amplification manifestation syndrome humans,” but fuck that. If they really wanted some fancy new term for “zombie” to catch on, they should have made it easy to shout at the top of your lungs, or at least made sure it formed a catchy acronym "
59 " You're crazy," pronounced Becks."And you're carrying eight guns," I replied. "Now that we've covered what everybody knows, can we move on? "
60 " More things we learned from the Rising: It’s hard to gentrify a city that’s on fire. "