“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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“Her heart was like a great road with room for everyone.”
― Lisa See, quote from Shanghai Girls
“Watch, hell,' Walt said. 'This is strip poker. What kind of homo wants to sit around and watch four guys get naked?”
― David Sedaris, quote from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
“So in order to understand everything that happened, you have to start from the premise that high school sucks. Do you accept that premise? Of course you do. It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. In fact, high school is where we are first introduced to the basic existential question of life: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad?”
― Jesse Andrews, quote from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“Aunt Cora says it's my aura. "I see them, you know. Yours is dark. Sort of like black coffee, although it fluctuates. Sometimes there are little flecks of gold. If you could make those coalesce, turn your aura more toffee than coffee, things would be different.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Fallout
“I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans, according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me."
--On his move back to America after living in England for twenty years.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from Notes from a Small Island
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