R (zombie) Quotes

“Why would you want your last thought to be a replay of your dirty, meaningless death?” “You think death isn’t meaningful?”

“I am dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.”

“We like having the walls and roofs over our heads. Otherwise we’d just be wandering in an open field of dust somewhere. [...] I imagine that’s what being full-dead is like. An emptiness vast and absolute.”

“What you are, I once was. What I am, you will become.”

“It disquieted me at first but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.”

“I’m not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I’m just a corpse who wants not to be.”

“There are so many options for dying in this new world. [...] All roads lead to us, the Dead, and our very unglamorous immortality.”

“I know that I have a choice, and I choose to change no matter what the cost.”

“I think I remember what love was like before. There were complex emotional and biological factors. [...] The new love is simpler. Easier. But small.”

“In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absence of mine.”

“I don’t want to die. I don’t want to disappear. I want to stay.”

“We’ll see what happens when we say yes while this rigor mortis world screams no.”