zombie-apocalypse

If she did bitch-slap me, I'd bitch-slap her right back, but I resented the word bitch and all its familiar forms, as it was degrading to women and dogs everywhere.

Seventy-five percent of the time when I'm ordering my "almond milk matcha latte with no sugar added, lukewarm, please," I'll be recognized by an employee. And yes, my order is a pin in the ass, but I'm determined to enjoy the liquid indulgences of modern life. Might as well take advantage of it all before the zombie apocalypse. I have no practical skills; I'm fully aware that I'll be one of the first ones "turned." Instead of learning motorcycle repair or something else disaster-scenario useful, I'll order the drink I want until I become a shambling corpse.AND I WON'T BE DEFENSIVE ABOUT IT, OKAY?

There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isn't old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So she lies there kicking her fat legs against the footboard of the crib, eternally calling for her mother. For food. For flesh.

I had watched him single handedly rip the head off a zombie as he had simultaneously prayed for its soul. When you witness a man do something like that, it changes your perception of them.

We__e trying to rebuild society, not plunge it back into chaos._ _ character quote

I do care. That's why I hunt them. But if you've seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the murders and disappearances. You learn to push it aside and move on. The other life isn't here anymore. This new world has its own rules. Survival of the fittest is one of them. If you're hoping for kindness and pity, don't hold your breath.

We__e not a people worth saving, plain and simple. We__e completely beyond that__oth the undead and the few still living. Yeah, 'living.' Some life, huh? But it__ the only life we could ever possibly live if we want to stay alive another day. It__ our life that terrifies me.

... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?___hose are brave words, Tiresias.___ew parents can__ afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.

If you're not learning how to live off the land, then you're only learning how to survive in the short-term. (During a conversation with someone in regards to surviving a zombie apocalypse, 2017)

...I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it.

Zombie nerds. They probably had the flyers already made up for this. There was nobody creepier than the zombie nerds, college guys who not only watched zombie movies and read zombie novels and played zombie video games, but actually formed clubs and collected zombie-killing weapons. Gun shops around there actually stocked zombie targets, and special zombie bullets with glow-in-the-dark tips. Not toy bullets, mind you. These guys would go out in the woods and train and shoot and defend to the death their right to stay in childhood until age thirty-five.

Thank you, Deke. You are very good to me._ __ know,_ he smirks. __an I get back in your bed now?

S__p?_ he asks. My voice rattles when I answer. __-not much. You know, reanimated corpses chasing me on a cruise ship. Same old.

If I can face a street full of rabid zombies, I can tell a boy I like him. Right?

If they ever turn, let them chase me for a while. It__ always been afantasy of mine to be chased by zombie cheerleaders.

I don__ know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I__ a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.

It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.

One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me.