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1 " The death of our world painted in spectacular beauty on the sky. "
― Bobby Adair , Zero Day / Infected / Destroyer (Slow Burn, #1-3)
2 " Were we going extinct, or did we have hope? "
3 " made his words something of a Rorschach test, and I might be reading too many of my own emotions into it. "
4 " had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend. "
5 " a sound of breaking bones wrapped in tearing flesh. "
6 " Man, I’ve been there.” Murphy laughed. “You were pretty dazed when I dragged your superhero ass off the floor down there.” “I’m past that part of it,” I said. “Thanks. If you hadn’t come down to get me, I’d be dead right now.” “Somebody has to ride shotgun in the Murph-mobile.” “Somebody stole the Murph-mobile,” I reminded him. "
7 " It was the bite. "
8 " I was frightened out of my wits but I was catching a familiar, addictive adrenaline wave. I was ready to taunt the reaper. "
9 " There'll be disgustingly rich people and abjectly poor people. Mankind will still find reasons to go to war. There'll still be starvation. There'll still be distrust between nations and people who are different. "
10 " Forgetting is a skill learned by the lucky. "
11 " Whenever you fire a gun, it’s like ringing a bell for Pavlov’s dog. "
12 " their hands very busy at invisible nothings that needed desperate attention. Their "
13 " You get to choose how you’re going to feel about it. I choose to be happy. "
14 " People hate because they’re afraid. People are afraid because they don’t understand. "
15 " Jerome, we don’t know jack about how to take care of ourselves once the grocery stores empty out. We don’t know how to farm. We don’t know how to hunt. We don’t know how to preserve food. We don’t know to how purify water. We don’t know anything about providing for ourselves that doesn’t involve a grocery store, an electric bill, or the internet. "
16 " Once people get beliefs into their heads, it’s fucking hard to change their minds, no matter how many facts come knocking on the door. "
17 " explicitly "
18 " Fear and hate aren’t rational emotions, and they damn sure don’t depend on the existence of valid reasons. "
19 " Once people get a belief in their heads, it’s damn near impossible to change their minds. "
20 " enough to hinder movement, but infection was sure to set in if I didn’t get to a doctor and get some antibiotics. That’s when it occurred to me that it was late morning. The sunlight spilling in through the east-facing window made that clear. I realized that I had slept through the entire night "
