“I fight for the freedom that we all have as human beings. The freedom to live the way we want,the freedom to choose our leaders,the freedom my father and hundreds of others have died to protect.”

“Now, sitting among the Biters and getting a glimpse of what battle against humans looked like from their perspective, she began to see things a bit differently. Sure, up close they were formidable with their strength, seeming immunity to pain, and their single-minded dedication to biting human flesh. But in the open like this, against trained soldiers, they were cannon fodder. They could not use weapons, moved slower than humans, and did not seem to have enough intelligence for anything more than the most rudimentary tactics.”

“Man had proven to be the most jealous of lovers, preferring to destroy the Earth rather than give her up.”

“Better dead than undead.”

“You take anything you fear and cannot understand and make it an object of hate. So much easier to hate and destroy than to seek to understand.”

“We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.”

“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”