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Rise of the Undead (End Times, #1) QUOTES

Rise of the Undead (End Times, #1) QUOTES

1 " There is a world of difference between city Australia and country Australia. It has nothing to do with wealth or education, nothing to do with Southern Cross tattoos and mullets, nothing to do with politics or income or class. It has everything to do with whether you know how to fix an engine, clean a rifle and birth a calf. Whether you know your neighbours. Whether you have enough foresight and pragmatism to convene a town meeting, throw a barricade up along the main road and strip refugees of their supplies. "

― Shane Carrow , Rise of the Undead (End Times, #1)

2 " We’re cut off. We’ve lived our whole lives in this stream of information: television, radio, Facebook, Twitter, ABC, SBS, Sky News, Seven, Nine, Ten, Reuters and AFP and AP and the BBC. Up-to-date, up to the second, right there in your pocket. Now it’s gone and we have no idea whether anyone else is alive or dead. They might be or they might not be. Schroedinger’s world. "

― Shane Carrow , Rise of the Undead (End Times, #1)

3 " We’ll be fine,” I said stubbornly. “The government will sort it out. We just have to wait here and keep ourselves safe.”
Matt gestured out at the city – the dead roaming the streets, the river silent and empty of evacuation boats, even the fighter jets gone from the sky now. Nothing but silence and death.
“We’ll be okay,” I said.
But I didn’t believe it. "

― Shane Carrow , Rise of the Undead (End Times, #1)

4 " That’s when you realise just how dependent you are on things you don’t understand, and just how deeply fucked you are when they’re gone. We’d "

― Shane Carrow , Rise of the Undead (End Times, #1)