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Zombies Vs. Unicorns QUOTES

Zombies Vs. Unicorns QUOTES

1 " If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

2 " The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

3 " Then you remember that Jack--that's his name, the mac & cheese--plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.
A pinky? Damn, you might as well starve yourself. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

4 " Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

5 " Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

6 " Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York? "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

7 " Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

8 " Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

9 " Think of it like the best mac and cheese you've ever had. No neon yellow Velveeta and bread crumbs. I'm talking gourmet cheddar, the expensive stuff from Vermont that crackles as it melts into the crust on top. Imagine if right before you were about to tear into it, the mac and cheese starts talking to you? "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

10 " A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

11 " Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers! "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

12 " The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken. So pity the first people to reach puberty after a zombie apocalypse, who would have some truly heavy lifting in this department...You become whatever they fear the most. Now THAT'S evolution "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

13 " Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns?

Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you?

Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way.

Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me? "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

14 " She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and twisting and pushing her apart from the inside. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

15 " Gravity pulls harder on troubles than on anything else. "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns

16 " Meu pai odeia The Who."
"Seu pai é um babaca "

― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns