“We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.”

“What kind of world were we living in, where the people we trusted to keep us healthy were the ones keeping us sick[...]”

“…and Dave and I, we were doing this…this weird circling thing, like we needed to figure out every single line of the script before we could even start the movie. I knew, and he knew, and we didn’t do a damn thing about it…It’s like we thought everything had to be perfect, or it wouldn’t work. Like it was a story.”

“There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.”

“If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.”

“Of course, if we were lucky, we wouldn't be getting chased by an army of zombies through the quarantine area that used to be downtown Santa Cruz. We'd be somewhere safer, like Bikini Atoll just before the bomb testing kicked off.”

“Neither of them was wearing a face shield. That put grenades out until I could get them to move out of the blast radius, since aerosolized zombie will kill you just as sure as the clawing, biting kind.”