“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.)”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“Dying hurts," said Ari. "It won't make you happy. It won't make anybody happy.”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“Everyone always seems happier than Soap, and as if they know something that Soap doesn't.”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“History happens while you're making other plans,”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“The universe has no opinion of us. No matter how much we want to pretend, real life does not contain the quality of story. No arcs, no morals, no meaning. Life is what we make of it.”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“scratch the surface and we were all going nuts in a thousand quiet ways.”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model of the solar system in the mid-1500s, but the Church didn't get around to punishing anyone for it until they threw Galileo in jail nearly a hundred years later.”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“Some people thought of vampires as rock stars, but really they were more like Martha Stewart. Vampires were prissy. They had to follow rules. They had to look good.”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“quoting Pope. " 'Words are like leaves, where they most abound, beneath, little fruit or sense is found.”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
“I have been conditioned by Philip Morris," he said with a smile.”
― John Joseph Adams, quote from The Living Dead
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“All the while he's been moving towards her, both stoat to rabbit and moth to flame. And she's staring at him, flame-bright and rabbit-scared, too brave to look away.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
“Humans run on emotion, assumption and impulse. We cant function on logic alone. But emotion assumption and impulse also allow us to weave cozy cocoons of unexamined prejudice and received wisdom. They shield us from the pain of unwelcome information.”
― Brooke Gladstone, quote from The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
“To go down and up two hands-and-knee climbing ravines and then out into the moonlight and the long, too-steep shoulder of mountain that you climbed one foot up to the other, one foot after the other, one stride at a time, leaning forward against the grade and the altitude, dead tired and gun weary, single file in the moonlight across the slope, on up and to the top where it was easy, the country spread in the moonlight, then up and down and on, through the small hills, tired but now in sight of the fires and”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from Green Hills of Africa
“Jehu, king of Israel from 841–814 BC, had engineered the slaughter of the descendants of Ahab at Jezreel in fulfillment of the prophecies of Elijah (1Ki 21:21; 2Ki 10:1–11). So Jezreel had become a picture of judgment as well as a warning to heed God’s prophets.”
― quote from Quest Study Bible: NIV
“Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone”
― Fola, quote from The Seed
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