128 Memorable Zombie Movie Quotes

Zombies have lurched, shuffled, and sprinted their way into our hearts and minds through countless films over the years, leaving behind a trail of iconic and chilling one-liners. These undead characters, along with the brave survivors, have gifted us with quotes that range from the terrifying to the surprisingly profound. Whether they're a reflection of society's deepest fears or just pure entertainment, zombie movies have produced some of the most memorable dialogue in the horror genre. Dive into our handpicked selection of 128 unforgettable zombie movie quotes that continue to haunt, amuse, and inspire fans around the world. Whether you're a die-hard aficionado or just starting your journey into the apocalypse, these quotes offer a glimpse into the enduring appeal of zombie cinema.

1. “A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.” - David Wellington

2. “I will not negotiate with the undead!” - David Wellington

3. “I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.” - Craig Ferguson

4. “What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.” - Libba Bray

5. “You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.” - Libba Bray

6. “There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)” - Kelly Link

7. “Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.” - Max Brooks

8. “Michael understood. "Not really. My gear is mostly blindfolds, feathers, and shit I got from the pet store. All the good stuff is expensive." There were online catalogs full of it. Leather and metal. Gags and hoods and cuffs and rope. That's what you really needed when the zombies came.” - Amelia Beamer

9. “They were all looking at him with an unpronounceable hunger. Actually it was a lot like the faces you see in porn, but with less certainty of the course of action. It was as if they couldn't decide whether to fuck him first, and then eat him, or the other way around. Except that probably wouldn't work as well.” - Amelia Beamer

10. “Whip," Walter echoed. "So there's an iPhone app for fighting zombies. Interesting.” - Amelia Beamer

11. “Zombies are the middle children of the otherworldly family. Vampires are the oldest brother who gets to have a room in the attic, all tripped out with a disco ball and shag carpet. Werewolves are the youngest, the babies, always getting pinched and told they're cute. With all that attention stolen away from the middle child Zombie, no wonder she shuffles off grumbling, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.” - Kevin James Breaux

12. “OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.” - Cherie Priest

13. “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.” - Alaya Dawn Johnson

14. “I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.” - John Green

15. “Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.” - Steve Hockensmith

16. “Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.” - Emily Cale

17. “What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.” - Seth Grahame-Smith

18. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” - Seth Grahame-Smith

19. “Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.” - Patton Oswalt

20. “Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.” - Cassandra Clare

21. “All right, you deadly little ghostlings,” I muttered. “Mama says go back to bed! - Cat” - Jeaniene Frost

22. “All of Europe, as far as we knew, was gone. It might as well not be there anymore. Russia was gone. By the time you got to wondering where America went there just wasn't any more room for it in your brain. A world without America just couldn't happen - the global economy would collapse. Every two penny warlord and dictator in the Third World would have a field day. It just wasn't possible. It would mean global chaos. It would mean the of history as we knew it. Which was exactly what happened.” - David Wellington

23. “Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?” - Joan Frances Turner

24. “The whole right side of his face was smashed in, concave forehead and crushed cheekbone and one eye bugging precariously from a broken socket. He was purplish-black, and dirty white: Maggots seethed from every pore and crawled across him in excited wriggly piles, blowflies waving and blooming and wilting, the bits of bone they'd scraped clean glinting like tiny mosaic tiles. Scraps of jeans and a leather jacket clung to the sticky seething mess of his flesh. He was big, big shouldered, a good foot taller; chit-chitter, he went, even standing still.” - Joan Frances Turner

25. “Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.They're fucking with the wrong people.” - Robert Kirkman

26. “The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered.” - Cherie Priest

27. “Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.” - David Wong

28. “Hey!" Caleb snapped as he realized Nick was about to lock him on the outside with their attackers. He pushed the door open and glared at him. "No man left behind."Nick scoffed. "This aint' the army, boy. It's every man for himself. Fall behind. Get eaten” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

29. “She sticks to the rules, because it's all she's got. It's like her feelings dried up and they were replaced with a pile of useless laws. Like my appendix. Don't know what I need it for, but it's still there.” - Monica Valentinelli

30. “I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.” - alan goldsher

31. “Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!” - alan goldsher

32. “Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.” - Adam Baker

33. “Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?” - Richard Kadrey

34. “Where did you find that one?""I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess.""They must be able to sense a kindred spirit.""Your one to talk. Don't you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?""Zombies not undead. There's a fine distinction. And no. Right now I'm scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow.” - Kiersten White

35. “Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.” - Daniel W. Drezner

36. “When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.” - Adam Selzer

37. “New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.” - COLSON WHITEHEAD

38. “Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving” - Mira Grant

39. “Is there anything hotter than a cute guy who is also armed and dangerous? I think not.” - Stacey Jay

40. “This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” - Amanda Hocking

41. “Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.” - Isaac Marion

42. “It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.” - Dan Chaon

43. “I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.Which was, I suppose, why we got hit with an initial wave of zombie bugs, birds and rodents. I bet some people would say if you've never picked undead mosquitoes out of your teeth, you've never lived. Under that definition, I'd be just as happy to have not lived, thanks.” - C.E. Murphy

44. “It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise.” - Simon Pegg

45. “My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.” - Isaac Marion

46. “You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.” - Rusty Fischer

47. “The website didn't say how much brains--or even how many--I should eat, only that I should eat them in 48 hours OR ELSE. Why doesn't anyone pay attention to details anymore? Would it be so hard to add a simple line like, BTW, Maddy, 3 pounds of brains per week is plenty?Seriously, am I the first new zombie ever to ask?” - Rusty Fischer

48. “Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.” - Isaac Marion

49. “Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.” - Tamara Rose Blodgett

50. “Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT” - Robert Kirkman

51. “Be nice to her,” I muttered under my breath. “She’s my sister; she got sick. She lost her kid. For all I know, she may have eaten her.” - Joan Frances Turner

52. “Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.” - Isaac Marion

53. “Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...” - Tamara Rose Blodgett

54. “I totally don't know what to do." He got up and started pacing. "Am I supposed to get you a present? Or maybe a card. I'm completely lost.” - David Lubar

55. “Little old laidesspeed away in their wheel chairs,frightened meals on wheels.” - Ryan Mecum

56. “Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.” - Rusty Fischer

57. “So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?”“Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.” - Rusty Fischer

58. “...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.” - Isaac Marion

59. “Everything's better with zombies - NOT” - Lily Herne

60. “Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.” - Alden Bell

61. “What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?” - Daniel Waters

62. “Alice is fictional. This isn't.” - Jess C. Scott

63. “Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.” - N.J. Hallard

64. “To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.” - Robert Kirkman

65. “..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;” - Robin Becker

66. “And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.” - Mira Grant

67. “I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.” - Mira Grant

68. “That puke was the most wonderful thing I'd ever seen. It was green and a little red. Technicolor, really, the color puke is supposed to be. It definitely wasn't black, and it didn't smell like toasty poop. This was a good sign.” - Carrie Harris

69. “Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.” - Mira Grant

70. “How do you kill something that's already dead?Nobody knows enough about them. Ask Jason. He'll have an opinion.Wait a moment. Rachel could see Corinne talking to Jason, but they were too far ahead to hear. He says you chop them up into little pieces.But what if that infects you with the disease?Jason leaned closer to answer Corinne quietly. She laughed. You let Nollin do it.” - Brandon Mull

71. “Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.” - Kelly DiPucchio

72. “When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires” - Pablo

73. “There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.” - Nicole Sobon

74. “Goons were the lowest sort of homunculi, only superior to zombies.” - Lita Burke

75. “In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.” - Ellen Hopkins

76. “If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.” - Mira Grant

77. “The return of the rain, beating out time on London's rooftops and pavements. Early morning Zombies sheltering beneath copies of the Standard whilst others ran screaming for cover in doorways because water from the heavens is holy and melts the undead.” - Stephen J. Day

78. “Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; they were umbrella salesmen standing outside a subway entrance in a downpour. The human race deserved the plague, we brought it on ourselves for poisoning the planet, for the Death of God, the calculated brutalities of the global economic system, for driving primordial species to extinction: the entire collapse of values as evidenced by everything from nuclear fission to reality television to alternate side of the street parking. Mark Spitz could only endure these harangues for a minute or two before he split. It was boring.The plague was the plague. You were wearing galoshes, or you weren't.” - COLSON WHITEHEAD

79. “I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys” - Isaac Marion

80. “And then, anger gave way to pure and simple job satisfaction. I mean, when I looked at a dead zombie head on a spike, I thought, "Hey, I did that. Picasso would have been proud. Especially how I rearranged that eye” - Jesse Petersen

81. “Dead folks use plastic! When in doubt, throw it out! Please use the bathroom appointed for your gender and mortality!” - Lia Habel

82. “Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.” - Mercedes Lackey

83. “His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don’t—it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed.” - Jen Naumann

84. “I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bite somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts" -Warm Bodies” - Isaac Marion

85. “The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.” - Steve Hockensmith

86. “Fuathan don’t come out until after dark. Sunlight kills them.’‘Like vampires?’‘Kind of. Very mean, sub-aquatic vampires who don’t need to drink your blood, but might do it anyway, just for fun.” - Somerset McCoy

87. “He's a ghost, not a carnival magician.-Benny Imura” - Jonathan Maberry

88. “He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.” - Jonathan Maberry

89. “There is another system, more beaded than weather or murder, that is moving up into the province. As Les leaves the chair to investigate his son’s crying a thousand zombies form an alliterative fog around Lake Scugog and beyond, mouthing the words Helen, hello, help. This fog predominates the region; however, other systems compete, bursting and winding with vowels braiding into dipthongs so long that they dissipate across a thousand panting lips. In the suburbs of Barrie, for instance, an alliteration that began with the wail of a cat in heat picked up the consonant “Guh” from a fisherman caught in surprise on Lake Simcoe. The echoing coves of the lake added a sort of meter, and by the time these sounds arrived in Gravenhurst, the people there were certain that a musical was blaring from speakers in the woods. All across the province, zombies, like extras in a crowd scene, imitate a thousand conversations. They open and close their mouths on things and sound is a heavy carpet of mumbling, a pre-production monstrosity. In minutes the Pontypool fog will march on the town of Sunderland and over the barriers south of Lindsay.” - Tony Burgess

90. “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.” - Alaya Dawn Johnson

91. “And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.” - Mira Grant

92. “Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?” - Isaac Marion

93. “He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi shows where they oxygenate the planet, but for my dad it’s in a suffocating reverse. He replaces the clean wholesome air with a non-stop puff of toxic poison.” - Tom Conrad

94. “The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.” - Max Brooks

95. “You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience, whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together, corpse.” - Isaac Marion

96. “Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?” - Alexia Purdy

97. “They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. The world has always been full of vicious predators. For plenty of people this carnage and savagery is business as usual.” - Adam Baker

98. “Fucking GUNS are fucking AWESOME and when you SHOOT them at SHIT, they fucking KILL it!” - Etienne Guerin DeForest

99. “Alex: "You asked earlier why us humans fear death. I suppose it is the unknown - not knowing what awaits on the other side. But now I know, and I still fear it."The Darkness: "?"Alex: "But now I fear the living - in fact, I now fear life more than death!” - Scott Beadle

100. “How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?” - Isaac Marion

101. “The abundance of small things, it'll bury you.” - Alden Bell

102. “[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should’ve just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)” - Saul Tanpepper

103. “We never surrendered. We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.” - Manel Loureiro

104. “Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?” - Corey Redekop

105. “Fresh is best.” - Die Booth

106. “I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

107. “When approaching a prospective human, first ask them what their name is. * If it replies "Brains," blow its fucking head off. * If it replies "Brian," ask it again, as you may have encountered a zombie with a speech impediment, or a zombie that was mildly retarded in life. * Keep in mind that it is entirely possible that you did encounter a human named "Brian.” - Etienne Guerin DeForest

108. “She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's happening, I put my arm around her and just hold her.I almost swear I can feel my heart thumping. But it must just be hers, pressed tightly against my chest.” - Isaac Marion

109. “I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.” - Scott Westerfeld

110. “Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you’re trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.” - Clive Barker

111. “What did the zombie say to the whore? Keep the tip!” - Diana Rowland

112. “I turned on Fox News and jumped when I saw that they had one of those things in their studio. "Are you people crazy?" I screamed at the television. "Get out of there. Somebody shoot it!" Then I realized I was watching Special Report and had mistaken Charles Krauthammer for a zombie.” - Ian McClellan

113. “I continued toward Atlanta with a Merle Haggard C.D. playing on the stereo. They weren't great hosts, but those guys in The Ted Kaczynski Fan Club had great taste in music. It was all classic country music- none of that sissy, boy-band country that they played on the radio all the time. I drove down the road while Merle preferred to just stay where he was and drink.” - Ian McClellan

114. “He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.” - Derek Landy

115. “I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.” - Madeleine Roux

116. “Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year.” - Gena Showalter

117. “I’m alive; I’m not gonna try eating your ass, okay? Don’t shoot!” “What… Eat my ASS?”“Sorry, I didn’t mean it like that.” - Etienne Guerin DeForest

118. “Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead.” - John Green

119. “Our virus is a lot smarter than the ones you see in zombie movies. It doesn't make its victims stagger around slobbering and moaning so anyone in their right minds would run the other way. It gets you cozying up to people so you cough and sneeze it right into their faces. We just need the vaccine. Then we'll be okay.” - Megan Crewe

120. “I think I remember what love was like before. There were complex emotional and biological factors. We had elaborate tests to pass, connections to forge, ups and downs and tears and whirlwinds. It was an ordeal, an exercise in agony, but it was alive. The new love is simpler. Easier. But small.” - Isaac Marion

121. “This is the moment I have dreaded, the very reason why we kept running, even when it seemed hopeless. We all seemed to believe if we kept running, we would never die. But what exactly had we been hoping to find in the end? A magical place where the infection hadn't spread? A castle surrounded by gumdrops and cotton candy?” - Jen Naumann

122. “Demons, werewolves, zombies--they're all supposed to be for entertainment purposes only.” - Jen Naumann

123. “It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.” - Anton Strout

124. “...So I put it out of its misery, if it really was miserable, and tried not to think about it. That was another thing they taught us at Willow Creek: don't write their eulogy, don't try to imagine who they used to be, how they came to be here, how they came to be this. I know, who doesn't do that, right? Who doesn't look at one of those things and just naturally start to wonder? It's like reading the last page of a book... your imagination just naturally spinning. And that's when you get distracted, get sloppy, let your guard down and end up leaving someone else to wonder what happened to you.” - Max Brooks

125. “I wish I could break this window. Step through it. But I can't break this window. I can't even find some less dramatic way to die inside of this school, like hanging myself or slitting my wrists, because what would they do with my body? It might put everyone at risk. I won't let myself do that.I'm not selfish like Lily.I hate her. I hate her so much my heart tries to crawl out of my throat but it gets stuck there and beats crazily in the too narrow space. I bring my hands to my neck and try to massage it back down. I pres so heard against the skin, my eyes sting, and then I'm hurrying back down the stairs, back to the first floor. I think of Trace running laps, something he can control.” - Courtney Summers

126. “I could not be a zombie. They had no thoughts. Their brains were gruel. They said little beyond "Brrr!" unable, even, to articulate completely what they sought."Brains,"I said distinctly. "And I feel no burning urge to partake of any." Forsooth, the idea sent a wave of nausea through me. Therefore I was not a zombie.” - Lori Handeland

127. “Me agarro el estómago de nuevo. —Me siento vacío... Me siento...muerto. Él asiente. —Matri...monio.” - Isaac Marion

128. “Sure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as in 28 Days. Or racial politics or fear of contagion or even the consumer unconscious (Night of the Living Dead, Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead). We could play this game all night.But really, zombies are not “supposed to be metaphors.” They’re supposed to be friggin’ zombies. They follow the Zombie Rules: they rise from death to eat the flesh of the living, they shuffle in slow pursuit (or should, anyway), and most important, they multiply exponentially. They bring civilization down, taking all but the most resourceful, lucky and well-armed among us, whom they save for last. They make us the hunted; all of us.That’s the stuff zombies are supposed to do. Yes, they make excellent symbols, and metaphors, and have kick-ass mythopoeic resonance to boot. But their main job is to follow genre conventions, to play with and expand the Zombie Rules, to make us begin to see the world as a place colored by our own zombie contingency plans. […]Stories are the original virtual reality device; their internal rules spread out into reality around us like a bite-transmitted virus, slowly but inexorably consuming its flesh. They don’t just stand around “being metaphors” whose sole purpose is to represent things in the real world; they eat the real world.” - Scott Westerfeld