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I just don't understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form.

My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

Alien eyes watched the strange metal object as it floated upward. There was blood in the water. Their home had been invaded. They would respond.

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet..

Yeah, well, right now? Right now, I think being crazy may be the only thing that's keeping me sane.

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.

Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I'm really excited to have back on the air.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

You can't kill the truth.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

None of my remedial education classes covered how to escape in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one.

That's what humanity does when faced with wolves. We take them in, tame them, and teach them how to keep us safe.

Some experiences are nearly universal, and no more pleasant when viewed from the outside.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

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

The line between "police force" and "army" is narrow under the best of circumstances.

Tansy had acted like a thug and reacted like a heroine, and if that wasn't one of the best combinations I'd ever encountered, I didn't know what was.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

My name is Georgia Mason, and I am begging you. Rise up while you can.

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

I guess in the end, it doesn't matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

All scientists are mad scientists.

Good dogs should never be asked to prove that they're good dogs. If there's anything in this world that we should take on faith, it's good dogs.

We have speed, and we have bullets. Everything else about this fight is in their favor.

That's the danger of genius. One way or another, it's going to destroy the world.

I have to find the heart of every subject as fast as I can, pin it down on the page, and then cut it wide open for the audience to see.

Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.

For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing.

Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain.

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.

Science was competitive because it was full of scientists.

[W]hat seems like madness at its inception will become the way things have always been if you give it enough time.

Sometimes, there is no reason for things to go wrong. They just do.

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit.
(Shaun Mason)

Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for "suntan" is "burn.

Are you ever not a pessimist?"
"Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.

...no elves or CPAs or other mythological creatures appeared to do my paperwork in the interim

But it never touched me. Not until Memphis.

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.

If they really wanted some fancy new term for "zombie" to catch on, they should have made it easy to shout at the top of your lungs,

Get your news from six or nine sources and you can usually tell the bullshit from the reality.

Know your enemy. That's what freedom really means.

If there's a rating system for quality of hallucination, I can say I was definitely scoring pretty high

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

I don't deal well with being alone. Maybe that's why I decided to go crazy instead.

say love is what keeps us together. The

The first rule we were taught in medical school was A cadaver is not a toy.

A truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it's not backed up by anything but fear.

If you so much as look at her funny, I'll blow your fucking face off. We clear? Good.

I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home.

Irwins are never more alive than when they're five minutes away from getting slaughtered.

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

I hate that word [insane]. All it means is 'you don't think like I do,' and by that standard, everyone is insane. It's a meaningless idea.

Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

People crave fear.

The only reward you get for making it to the end is making it to the end - you get to know the truth, and that's it.

Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.

But that's the thing about reality. It doesn't need to make sense.

When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand.

The day was getting more interesting by the minute. I just had to hope it was the sort of interesting we'd live to talk about later.

People used to travel for fun before the Rising. Can you believe that? - Alaric Kwong

Nature doesn't have to make sense. Nature just does.

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

Humanity has always been disturbingly happy to sacrifice its future on the alter of right now.

[R]equests from the corporation were never really requests. They were commandments wearing their best Sunday clothes.

I'm not insane, I'm neurologically variant," she snapped back. "Sticks and stones, asshole.

What the fuck is going on here?

Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, shame on me. Kill my brother? Oh, it's on. And you are not going to enjoy it.

Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.

No team is complete without a good technician, and the word for an incomplete team is usually fatality.

People who can't hack it as Irwins because they're too violent go into the air travel industry.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came.

Do I give money to charity and help old-lady zombies across streets so that they can bite babies?

We're going to tell the truth." I glanced toward him. "Hopefully, that's going to be enough.

But my name is Georgia Mason. And I am here to tell you the truth.

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

That was the cold equation. How many lives is one person, even a totally innocent person, going to be worth?

Once a door is open, you have to live with what's on the other side.

I was unaware that Darwinism was a race. - Mahir Gowda

I don't need to hear it, Sherman. I've already run every little bit of your possible dialogue in my head while I was masturbating.

Brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

I'm sorry, but you're kinda losing me here. I'm happy to keep apologizing, but I do need to know what I'm apologizing for.

Now do what you do best. Break this fucking thing wide open, and let the pieces fall.

Everything is 'just a story'. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it's just a story. What matters is making sure it's heard.

That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

That was what separated us from the zombies.

Really? You'd do that for me? Because 'My Siater Abandoned Me in Zombie Country Without a Vehicle' would make a great article.

A fresh Coke would keep me from thinking too hard about the tools he was using to do the job.

And those people? They like it when you're scared. So they do their best to sit on the truth,