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Still, as messed-up as it was, I really liked the feel of her bare arms and the smell of her hair. I got mad at myself right away and told myself I wasn't one of those guys, told myself it was just the hit to the head that was making me think that way.
— Amanda Lance, Outlaw
So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time
— Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.
— Leah Stewart, The History of Us
It’s been a long time. How have you been doing?”I’m fine. How are you? You’re looking very handsome today, Addolgar the Handsome, lord of my loins.At least that was what she’d like to say to him, but instead she came out with, “Yeah, hi.
— G.A. Aiken, A Tale of Two Dragons
So I’ll see you tomorrow then.”“Yeah.” His heart rate picked up. She really did make him feel more like a kid than a grown man.Although the desire she made him feel was certainly a man’s desire. “Do you want to have lunch withme tomorrow?”“Lunch?”“Yeah. A picnic. I want to show you this place
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
But she didn’t pull away from him. If anything, she seemed to sort of melt against him. It was thefirst time she’d willingly accepted something from him without getting stiff and defensive andgenerally annoyed
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
Yeah.” He touchedKelsey’s arm and felt a shock, like static electricity. But this went deeper, beneath his skin. “I’mgoing to go see what Cade needs. See you later?”She licked her lips, the action sending a different kind of electricity down south. What a time for hislibido to make a reappearance. “Yeah. See you later
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
He flexed his fingers and fought the urge to put his hand on her stomach. It was a possessivegesture, and he felt a little bit possessive
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
Hi.” He turned and saw Kelsey standing in the door of the kitchen, looking . . . Well, she wasglowing. That pregnant woman glow, maybe? Or just the sun hitting her face at the right time. Eitherway, she looked hot, and he noticed
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
He found himself fighting the urge to reach out and take her chin between his thumb andforefinger. To tilt her head so that she had to look at him. So that her lips were so close to his a slightmovement would—
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
Kelsey breathed in deeply. “He asked me to stay.”“Here?”“Yes.”“For how long?”“Until . . . until I want to leave, I guess. But he doesn’t want me to go yet, and . . . I’m thinking ofaccepting the offer.”“Now he sounds like he’s proposing marriag
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
Tupperware? I don’t know. That’s what my mom did.”“Well, my mom had to bring bigger containers for food when the family ate outdoors. But she usedthis when she and Dad . . .
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
She swallowed, her eyes dropping to his lips. And he knew she felt it too.
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
He relaxed his hands, lifted one and tucked a strand of wispy blonde hair behind her ear. She didn’tmove; she only looked at him. He wondered if she felt it too.
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
Do I look the sort to cause trouble?" he asks. For the first time, he looks me directly in the eye. I catch my breath as his eyes slam into me. They're the gray of the sky right before a blizzard."Well, they did just throw you into a cell," I say, voice soft. "But, no." I break our gaze, finishing my thoughts silently.You like the sort that brings it.
— Jennifer Ellision, Threats of Sky and Sea
Kelsey laughed and the sound moved through him, made the hairs on his arms stand up, made hisheart beat faster
— Maisey Yates, Unexpected
David.""Nobody home but you and me," he said, nibbling at her jaw, her throat, her mouth as he guidedher out of the kitchen. "You know what I was thinking the other day?""No." How could she? She didn't know what she was thinking right now."That it's a complex business. My girlfriend lives with her mother."She did laugh now, at the idea of being called anyone's girlfriend."And I live with my kids. No place to go to do all the things I've imagined doing with you. Do youknow the things I've imagined doing with you?""I'm getting the picture. David, it's the middle of the day.""The middle of the day." He paused at the base of the steps. "And an opportunity. I hate wastedopportunities, don't you?
— Nora Roberts, The Villa
God, I love men." She got up from the desk, walked to him, cupped his face in her hands andgave him a smacking kiss on the mouth. "You're just so cute."One hard tug on her hand had her tumbling into his lap. An instant later her quick laugh was cutoff, and her heart pounding.He hadn't kissed her this way before, with impatience and heat and hunger all mixed together in anear brutal assault. He hadn't kissed her as if he couldn't get enough. Would never get en
— Nora Roberts, The Villa
What is it about her, Duncan?” he said finally. “She fights me at every turn, then nearly dies defending me. She comes more than willingly to my bed, then runs the very next morning. She wants nothing to do with me, and yet I find her... fascinating.
— D.B. Reynolds, Raphael
‎I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
— Brian Molko
'When two people meet who are obviously attracted to each other, like we are, it always starts out as a game. I make a move, you make a move, and if the moves are correct, we both win.' 
— S.J.D. Peterson, Pup
Being in love is not always being happy but being happy is always being in love
— Hisham Fawzi
I am attracted to certain types of people: the outrageous, outstanding and the one's pegged as odd. The 3 O's remind me not to be ordinary.
— Wendo.L.
Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.
— Jane Costello, The Nearly-Weds
It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.
— W.K. Marriott, The Prince
She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.
— Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
Then what’s the problem?” He was getting irritated now. “Are you scared, V? Scared that fucking me might turn into something more?” Taunting her, he continued, “Scared that I might just be able to get past that impenetrable outer shell?
— Nicole Edwards, Zane
He was like a jalapeño, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him.
— Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist
His mouth was a little too wide and snaked from corner to corner. His nose had been broken a few times, and when you looked at him straight on like I was doing as I stared at him across the circle bar, you could really tell. But his eyes were beautiful, cunning and otherworldly. His hair was a controlled mess; wispy dark strands that swooped across his forehead with long sideburns. He had high cheekbones, a strong jawline. When you combined all the parts, they equaled so much more than the sum. He was exotically, dangerously beautiful. He'd been mine once. He'd broken my heart once. And he was here to kill me. He only needed to do that once, too.
— Karina Halle, Sins & Needles
You sort of don't find me attractive? That can also mean you sort of do find me attractive.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
So, you want the dirt on Hell boy or not?~ Taylor (to Erin about Veiron) Her Demonic Angel ~
— Felicity Heaton
So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I read your poem," I croaked. "'Fall.'"Then something I never thought would happen, happened: Marcus Flutie was shocked by something I said."You did?" he said. "I thought you lost it!""Well someone found it for me. Where do you get off saying," I lowered my voice, "we'll be naked without shame in paradise?"He didn't open his mouth."I know what that means, you know. Who do you think I am?"He didn't open his mouth."We are never going to be naked without shame in paradise."He didn't open his mouth."We're NEVER going to have sex," I whispered, clearly over-stating my case.He didn't open his mouth. The mouth that used to bite mine."And I'm just going to forget about that biting thing from the other night," I said.He looked at me right in the eyes. If he'd focused hard enough on my pupils, he could've seen his own reflection, his own face smirking at me."You couldn't forget if you tried," he said, before walking away.He's right. And I don't know if I hate him or love him for that.
— Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep one foot out the door just on case.But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand. And even if I did what does it mean?
— Richard Castle
Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.
— Cheryl Drake Harris, Lily's Ghost
You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn,' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her.
— Charlotte Lamb, Out of Control
I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive.
— John Fowles, The Magus
He knew that if Michelle entered into the walls of the Vatican, she’d corrupt every single clergyman within, causing them to forsake their vows in trade for a few moments with her. With one glance men would happily follow her to the bowels of hell and swim across the lake of fire to get to her.
— Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: Las Vegas
There are also other factors that make a person attractive to us, which have to do with what we sense we can experience with them, and how think they can enhance the quality of our life. We may feel that they have the capacity to bring more healing, passion, peace, exuberance, ease, fulfillment, or joy into our life.
— Linda Bloom
There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal....
— Martin Edwards, The Frozen Shroud
What about mold," Tom reminded her. "Fuzziness on a girl is never attractive.
— Lia Habel, Dearly, Departed
She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude of him to persist in it. It was distracting.
— Andrea D. Smith, Love Factor
An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.
— H.M. Forester, Game of Aeons
What do you want from me Duncan?” My breath caught in my throat when he licked his lips and swallowed hard. “I don’t know everything and nothing. I feel like you’re this giant flame that I can’t get away from. I fight the pull; I try as hard as I can to move in the other direction but something keeps bringing me back. I left town hoping I’d never come back here, but here I am. I guess I’m sick of fighting it. I’m willing to take the chance of burning up the question is, are you?”Duncan-The Wild Hunt
— Ashley Jeffery
At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture
— Emma Donoghue
A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.
— Jed Rubenfeld, The Interpretation of Murder
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.
— Junot Díaz
She had a thing for cocky assholes. When they expressed interest in her it seemed meaningful. When nice guys hit on her, she had trouble caring. 
— Lucinda Rosenfeld, What She Saw...
It's chemical, fancying him is purely chemical. It's intoxicating - the frisson, the attraction - it's intoxicating because it's purely chemical. But you'll just have to remember the wedding ring - divorcees don't wear wedding rings. This guy has his own Vita at home. You're his potential Suzie. Is that who you want to be? Do you want the next man in your life to have Tim's principles?
— Freya North, Chances
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
— Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.
— Amanda Hocking, Hollowland
I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.
— Holly Black, Kin
OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.
— Cherie Priest
I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.
— Mira Grant, Deadline
He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.
— Derek Landy, Kingdom of the Wicked
I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.
— John Green, Zombicorns
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.
— Libba Bray
So you killed him with what now?""I tried that Dr. Phil book at first"..."And I finished it off with the toilet seat. Just so you know, you left it up again. That drives me crazy.
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
If a responsible, mentally sound American wants to own and AR-15, that’s their right. Besides, when the zombies come…okay, you don’t like the zombie thing. When the Chinese invade our country, who do you want to depend on? The over-extended police force and the National Guard? Or the next door neighbor who’s a former Marine and has enough guns and ammunition for your entire block?
— Aaron B. Powell, Priority
Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT
— Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out
Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.
— David Wong, John Dies at the End
And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.
— Mira Grant
I will not negotiate with the undead!
— David Wellington, Monster Island
Are you going to rape me at any point or anything?" I just figured it was good to get things out in the open, get myself in the right headspace. He whipped his head around and looked at me like I'd just insulted his grandmother. "The fuck? No, I'm not." He gave me the squint side-long. "Are you going to rape me?
— Domashita Romero, El Presidio Rides North
Zombies are the middle children of the otherworldly family. Vampires are the oldest brother who gets to have a room in the attic, all tripped out with a disco ball and shag carpet. Werewolves are the youngest, the babies, always getting pinched and told they're cute. With all that attention stolen away from the middle child Zombie, no wonder she shuffles off grumbling, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.
— Kevin James Breaux
Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.
— Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?"She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan."Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity
Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?
— Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.
— Rusty Fischer, Zombies Don't Cry
I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.
— Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
The monkey didn't help matters any. He was sitting on top of the microbus, just watching the undead plunge to their end. His face appeared so serene, so intelligent, as if he truly understood the situation. I almost wanted him to turn to me and say, 'This is the turning point of the war! We've finally stopped them! We're finally safe!' But instead his little penis popped out and he peed in my face.
— Max Brooks
You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.
— Libba Bray
Is there anything hotter than a cute guy who is also armed and dangerous? I think not.
— Stacey Jay, Undead Much
Oh, you're a picky sort, huh?" He laughed. "That takes balls, being choosy at a time like this.
— Domashita Romero, El Presidio Rides North
At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.
— Donna Lynn Hope
What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.
— Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Then you remember that Jack--that's his name, the mac & cheese--plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.A pinky? Damn, you might as well starve yourself.
— Alaya Dawn Johnson, Zombies Vs. Unicorns
He wasn't my type -- my type was more the skinny hipster boys in girl jeans and thick glasses, a.k.a. the first ones to go during the outbreak -- but the sight still had me staring.
— Domashita Romero, El Presidio Rides North
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.)
— Kelly Link, The Living Dead
Beth from accountingis just sitting in her careating spaghetti.
— Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains
Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.
— Mira Grant, Countdown
This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.
— Amanda Hocking, Hollowland
A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.
— David Wellington, Monster Nation
The website didn't say how much brains--or even how many--I should eat, only that I should eat them in 48 hours OR ELSE. Why doesn't anyone pay attention to details anymore? Would it be so hard to add a simple line like, BTW, Maddy, 3 pounds of brains per week is plenty?Seriously, am I the first new zombie ever to ask?
— Rusty Fischer, Zombies Don't Cry
Where did you find that one?""I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess.""They must be able to sense a kindred spirit.""Your one to talk. Don't you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?""Zombies not undead. There's a fine distinction. And no. Right now I'm scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow.
— Kiersten White, Supernaturally
Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.
— Emily Cale, Under Wraps
Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!
— Alan Goldsher, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
Everything's better with zombies - NOT
— Lily Herne, Deadlands
Tony, Tony,come around, something's lost that can't be found.
— Stephen King
Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?
— Joan Frances Turner, Dust
I just don’t understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form.
— Mira Grant, Deadline
Shawshank’s good,” he says. “But you can’t beat the way Woody Harrelson kills zombies. He takes such joy in it.”“Uh-huh,” I say, making a face. “I’ve always found zombies to be the least threatening of the scary monsters. I mean, come on. They’re slow. They’re brain-dead. They don’t plot evil or try to take over the world. They just—” I put my arms out in front of me and give him my best zombie groan. I shake my head. “So not scary.”“But they just. Keep. Coming,” Christian says. “You can run, you can kill them, but more of them always pop up, and they never stop.” He shudders. “And they try to eat you, and if you get bitten, that’s it—you’re infected. You’re doomed to become a zombie yourself. End of story.”“Okay,” I concede, “they’re kind of scary,” and now I’m vaguely disappointed that we’re not here to watch a zombie movie.
— Cynthia Hand, Boundless
Michael understood. "Not really. My gear is mostly blindfolds, feathers, and shit I got from the pet store. All the good stuff is expensive." There were online catalogs full of it. Leather and metal. Gags and hoods and cuffs and rope. That's what you really needed when the zombies came.
— Amelia Beamer, Loving Dead, The
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.
— Colson Whitehead, Zone One
It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.
— Dan Chaon, Stay Awake
I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.Which was, I suppose, why we got hit with an initial wave of zombie bugs, birds and rodents. I bet some people would say if you've never picked undead mosquitoes out of your teeth, you've never lived. Under that definition, I'd be just as happy to have not lived, thanks.
— C.E. Murphy, Walking Dead
Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...
— Tamara Rose Blodgett, Death Weeps
Little old laidesspeed away in their wheel chairs,frightened meals on wheels.
— Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains
That puke was the most wonderful thing I'd ever seen. It was green and a little red. Technicolor, really, the color puke is supposed to be. It definitely wasn't black, and it didn't smell like toasty poop. This was a good sign.
— Carrie Harris, Bad Taste in Boys
What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?
— Daniel Waters
Be nice to her,” I muttered under my breath. “She’s my sister; she got sick. She lost her kid. For all I know, she may have eaten her.
— Joan Frances Turner, Dust
They were all looking at him with an unpronounceable hunger. Actually it was a lot like the faces you see in porn, but with less certainty of the course of action. It was as if they couldn't decide whether to fuck him first, and then eat him, or the other way around. Except that probably wouldn't work as well.
— Amelia Beamer, Loving Dead, The
Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.
— Kelly DiPucchio, Zombie in Love
Whip," Walter echoed. "So there's an iPhone app for fighting zombies. Interesting.
— Amelia Beamer, Loving Dead, The
What are you, Zombie Slayer Barbie?" The big man in the back barked a laugh. "You'll pay for that one.
— Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness
I totally don't know what to do." He got up and started pacing. "Am I supposed to get you a present? Or maybe a card. I'm completely lost.
— David Lubar
She sticks to the rules, because it's all she's got. It's like her feelings dried up and they were replaced with a pile of useless laws. Like my appendix. Don't know what I need it for, but it's still there.
— Monica Valentinelli, The Zombie Feed, Vol. 1
The whole right side of his face was smashed in, concave forehead and crushed cheekbone and one eye bugging precariously from a broken socket. He was purplish-black, and dirty white: Maggots seethed from every pore and crawled across him in excited wriggly piles, blowflies waving and blooming and wilting, the bits of bone they'd scraped clean glinting like tiny mosaic tiles. Scraps of jeans and a leather jacket clung to the sticky seething mess of his flesh. He was big, big shouldered, a good foot taller; chit-chitter, he went, even standing still.
— Joan Frances Turner, Dust
So, if the zombies are coming to town, why exactly are we coming back here?”“Don’t call them that.”“But they are—““No, they’re not. They’re mutants or science gone awry orsomething. Anything but zombies.” “How would that be better?
— Daniel Younger, Zen and the Art of Cannibalism: A Zomedy
Little is known about the love lives of the undead. Really, past the brain-eating, reanimated corpse angle, not much is said for the zombie’s perspective. So they ate brains—big deal! Sure, they were corpses—so what? Indeed, there was the smell, but whose fault was that?At first glance they were brain-hungry cannibals, (Mmm, brains. Maybe with a little cilantro or a garlic rub—mashed potatoes and brainsloaf—brains pot pie—penne a la brains...) but in reality, zombies were not the mindless man-eaters or virus-addled lunatics jonesing for human flesh depicted in the movies. Just like everything in life—or rather, unlife—things were more complicated. Zombies were, until very recently, people. And with that came wants, desires, longings. Needs.Asher had been troubled by the zombie loneliness until Brenda, the attractive corpse he’d met in a less animated state earlier, pulled him into the cemetery, threw him down on a slab and shagged him silly.
— Daniel Younger, Zen and the Art of Cannibalism: A Zomedy
There are probably more of us. If we’re all zombies, thenthere’s got to be more. I say we go up to the cemetery and find out.”“Can we get soda on the way?”Nothing washes down brains better than a can of Coca Cola and a little shameless product placement. (Hey, the undead do have an image problem.)“Soda and cemeteries! Soda and cemeteries!” they chanted. “And braaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiins!”“Hey Bernie, you’re getting pretty good at that.”“Okay, you try.”“Braaa—” the zombie belched, ”—aiiinsss.”Earl heaved the coroner’s body out of the way. They headed off for the cemetery, each trying furiously to perfect their own, unique and personal call for brains like an undead choir, out of tune.“Braaaaiiiiins!” “Braaiiiiiiiinns!” “Braaaaaaaaaains!” “Bray-uns.”“That was just awful.” ...Away into the night.
— Daniel Younger, Zen and the Art of Cannibalism: A Zomedy
Explosive Pandemic-type zombies mostly spread the contagion through wounding or biting humans, and in that way, the increase their numbers. Because they multiply so quickly and explosively, they can destroy all human civilization in a very short time. For this reason, will refer to them as Explosive Pandemic-type zombies. The person responsible for Explosive Pandemic-type zombies is none other than George A Romero, who created them in 1968 Night of the Living Dead.
— Freddy Sakazaki, Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
— Deyth Banger
When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go.
— Dennis Liggio, Support Your Local Monster Hunter
I grinned, revealing the gap where my left incisor had been prior to a nasty encounter with a man who thought that running a zombie dog fighting ring would be a great way to spend his twilight years. Ben alwasy says I'd be more photogenic and pull better ratings if I got it fixed, but Ben can stuff it. I don't have the time or patience to mess around with dentures and bridges, and given the odds and how I tend to do my job, I'll probably be a zombie someday. Being a zombie with unbreakable titanium implants in my mouth seems like an asshole thing to do.
— Mira Grant, Feedback
Mindless violence against the undead?” said Zzzap. “Count me in.
— Peter Clines, Ex-Communication
At first we didn’t know what to call them. Most called them zombies, but it didn’t seem right, because unlike their fictional counterparts, they didn’t hunger for flesh. Others called them demons, sent back from the underworld to the world of the living after a lifetime of sin. Ghosts, spirits, the possessed, one thing was certain: the dead were dead no longer” – A.J.Hill
— Anna Kopp, Rise of the Chosen
New from Ronco, the Zomb-Matic adjustable dead. Choose how much of uncle Willy comes back to eat you!!! People like it when they have some control over how quickly they are consumed by guilt, or a dead loved one...
— Neil Leckman
On the right, a brigade of trolls. On the left, squabling civil servants. Invasion of zombies. Have I managed to summarize the zeitgeist now?
— Martijn Benders
[Therapist and friend, with a voice like Raul Julia during his Gomez Adam’s days] Rudy studied my face, “I have a two o’clock open on Tuesday.”I sighed, “Yeah, ok. Tuesday at two.”He nodded, pleased. “Bring Starbucks.”“Sure, what do you want?”“My usual. Iced half-caf ristretto quad grade two-pump raspberry two percent no whip light ice with caramel drizzle three-and-a-half-pump white mocha.”“Is any of that actually coffee?”“More or less.”“And you think I’m damaged …
— Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
— George A. Romero
Eche, eche, AB32, CD54, EF76, Amanda thought as she kissed Steven. At any moment, she would either kill or transform him.
— Howard Dunkley
He sat on the grass, rested the carcass on his lap and bit into its soft underbelly, spilling its rank contents onto his freshly pressed shirt and slacks.
— Howard Dunkley, The EF76 Strain: The Complete Narrative
Matthew licked the fright induced sweat from his victim’s temple then bit a quarter sized piece of flesh from her right cheek as she flayed wildly under him.
— Howard Dunkley, The EF76 Strain: The Complete Narrative
It was during Latin that the Austro-Hungarians arrived with their dogs and zombies to kill everyone at the Eden College for Young Ladies.
— David Wake, The Derring-Do Club and the Empire of the Dead
He's barely said anything and I already know this guy is gross,' she told the girls. 'If the zombies come at us, we feed them him first.
— Faith McKay, Lipstick & Zombies
For the first time in his life, Stony felt it. It ran like a hot wire, up from his spine, to the base of his skull. His mouth opened on its own.He wanted to bite. He wanted to bite hard.
— Daryl Gregory, Raising Stony Mayhall
There are bad people out there, Jimmy. I don’t know if you’ve seen them… they walk around like they’re lost. And they make people sick by hurting them. That’s why we stay inside.
— Bryan Way, The Void
Zombies don't bother me, sir," Faith said, dimpling cutely. "They're insane, hungry, angry animals. They won't kill me from professional courtesy, sir.
— John Ringo, Islands of Rage & Hope
Admit when you're wrong. It doesn't fix a busted leg, of course, but it's a nice gesture none-the-less.
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
Share in your activities and interests. If you are going to kill zombies anyway, why not do it together?
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
Present a united front: YOU against the zombies.
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
Talk openly about important issues like money, sex, and religion. They can affect your life and happiness a great deal. Especially when it comes to cults.
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
Show physical affection. Nothing says "I love you" like bearing the entirety of your spouse's weight.
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
You are your partner are on the same side - it's the side of the living.
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
Men are from Mars. Zombies are from Hell.
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
Have you ever wanted to smash a car? Or break a television? Or maybe burn a big fire in the middle of a city square? If the answer is yes, then you'd have some fun during a zombie infestation. It's the little moments, you know?
— Jesse Petersen, Married with Zombies
...brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.
— Mira Grant, Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
Don't discuss your relationship problems with friends. Your zombie problems are another story entirely.
— Jesse Petersen
Contrary to popular belief," Gretchen grumbled. "It's creepy to watch a girl while she sleeps."	Clint shrugged and smiled. "Sorry, I guess I should've just woken you up.
— Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness
I like zombies, Stephen King also like them.Zombies are pretty interesting creatures,...
— Deyth Banger
I did what I had to do. Now he's motivated.""Yeah, sure, motivated to s**t his pants maybe," Luke point out.
— Amanda Steel, After the Zombies
I did what I had to do. Now he's motivated.""Yeah, sure, motivated to s**t his pants maybe," Luke pointed out.
— Amanda Steel, After the Zombies
Plus, I wondered if any of these celebrities were alive; or if Brangelina was now a zombified couple.
— Shannon Jaeger, The Zed Spire
But the sounds behind me tell me why. I risk a glance and see so many Zs on our asses that I wonder if they've been doing pilates all this time to get in shape for the great Whispering Pines mad-dash marathon.
— Jake Bible, Z-Burbia
Davey Boy's Dead was given a new lease on life when doctors transplanted the Dynamite Kidney into his body. That new lease on life came to a sudden and rather hilarious end when the Dynamite Kidney exploded and tore a hole in Davey Boy's side. - The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Zombies
— Darrin Mason, The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Laughter: The Ultimate Collection of Rude, Crude, and Very Funny Short Stories
The brighter the sunlight, the worse it affects them," said Einstein."So we got to pay more attention to the weather forecast," said DogNut. "Cloudy with a chance of zombies.
— Charlie Higson, The Fear
Thomas remembered the image of the Cranks at the windows back at the dorm. Like living nightmares, missing only a death certificate to make them official zombies.
— James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was.
— Faith McKay, Lipstick & Zombies
Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.
— Olivier Magny, Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure
Worst rescue ever.
— J.M. Paquette
This is how the zombie apocalypse starts," Cas said. "You don't screw with death, yo!
— Jennifer Rush, Reborn
The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.
— Iain Sinclair, London Orbital
Only, it’s not an it. It’s a her. A zombie. A woman. A zombie woman. She’s older than Janine, closer to my age, maybe early thirties, missing a little bit of her face, but otherwise sort of pretty in a melancholy way.
— Charles Yu, Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
The toughest part about riding a horse is overcoming the urge to eat it.
— Brian South, The Zombie Sheriff Takes Tucson: A Love Story
Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe.
— Brian South, The Zombie Sheriff Takes Tucson: A Love Story
If a fae sorcerer, or sorcerers, are using necromancy to raise the dead they need to be stopped. No matter what happens, we need to bring a reckoning.--Catherine
— Chris Pavesic, The Caelimane Operation
Oatmeal Face, Jawless, and the other revenants dragged me out of the van by the zip tie between my hands. The sharp plastic bit painfully into my wrists."All right, all right, I'm coming," I said. "Keep your faces on."There was no reaction from any of them. Humor was wasted on the dead.
— Nicholas Kaufmann, Die and Stay Dead
The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.
— Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
That's it. New rule: no more flirting during the zombie apocalypse
— Alison Kemper
Listen up, Little Miss Fun Hater. Off the record, if it wasn't for our school's strict but smarmy anti-bullying laws, I would bitch-slap you into next summer.
— G.G. Silverman, Vegan Teenage Zombie Huntress
Nicky turned and bolted. He’d only had about a thirty foot head start and a few were closing ground on him quickly. He cursed his hundred-dollar shoes and his vanity. The shoes looked great, but were definitely not made for running, nor was the suit he was wearing. He vowed that if he made it out of there alive, he’d only wear sneakers and track suits for the rest of his days. "Of course, I’ll probably be laughed out of the mob, but I don’t care at this point.
— Ian  McClellan, One Undead Step
Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.
— Ian  McClellan, Zombie Apocalypse 2012: A Political Horror Story
If this had been a public-school locker room, there would have been some gray jumbo-sized garbage cans nearby, and I probably could've taken care of cleanup by myself. But apparently the girls of St. Andrew's don't throw anything away, because all they had was a tiny wastebasket and some recycling bins. There were bins for paper, plastic, and glass, but none for rotting corpses. Go figure.
— James Ponti, Dead City
You can take that needle out of my leg now. I'd like to pull up my pants.
— Alison Kemper, Dead Over Heels
I hate zombies.I know that sound prejudiced. I'm sure some zombies are really nice to kittens and love their parents. But it's been my experience that most are not the kind of people you want sending you friend requests.
— James Ponti, Dead City
Zombies are the ideal late twentieth-century monsters. A zombie is the one thing you can't deal with. It survives anything. Frankenstein's monster and Dracula could be sent down in so many ways. Zombies, though, fall outside all this. You can't argue with them. They just keep coming at you.
— Clive Barker
We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.
— Mira Grant, San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
You’re drunk. They’d arrest you on the spot.”	“What? There’s no law against driving a car when you’re drunk.” He swayed back and forth while he spoke. “Besides, I’m not drunk.”	“Fine, you’re not drunk, but you’ve been drinking and there is a law that says you can’t drive when you’re drunk. It’s called driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence or something like that. I’ll drive.”	“Hmmm… Never heard of it. Okay- you drive.
— Ian  McClellan, One Undead Step
At first, many people infected with the zombie virus experienced similar symptoms to Ebola.
— Andrew Cormier, Shamblers: The Zombie Apocalypse
Word of advice,” the Colonel said from the other side. “Don’t tease the zombies.
— Peter Watts, Echopraxia
The world is truly a terrible place. Every one of my generation is lost, filling the holes which are their lives with seditious and yet passionless acts of unnecessary drama. It is a world of hypocrisy and whispers, a dark mine shaft of overfed, spoiled, and thankless slaves too stupid to realize that, despite their steady stream of shallow luxuries, they are still slaves.
— Jason S. Hornsby, Every Sigh, the End
The procedure, not yet approved in the United States or in Europe, was a form of stem cell therapy.
— Joseph M. Chiron, Tagged: The Apocalypse
Heart condition? That’s rich. I guess you can call a heart not beating a condition.-PJ
— Nessie Strange, Living Dead Girl
...the end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.
— Patricia Hamill, Fearless
The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.
— Justin Alcala
I think you’re the only person I know who gets excited over these dead things.”Freya returned his smile with her own grin and let the crossbow in her hands rest against her hip. “If you don’t think they’re even the teensiest bit fascinating, then you best just stay home and let me and Darius do the fun stuff for once.
— Laurel Coleman, First Winter
Pulling back, like a savage carnivore at its prey, it tore a large chunk of meat rendering his left arm useless...regardless he did not require it for long.
— Stacy Buck, Squanto Undead: Wake the Undead Part 2
I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.
— Stacy Buck, Squanto Undead: Wake the Undead Part 2
You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.
— Stacy Buck, Squanto Undead: Wake the Undead Part 2
Not too bad, reminds me of some kind of meat dip, best if you close your eyes and pretend it's something else.
— Patricia Hamill, Fearless
...his vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.
— Patricia Hamill, Fearless
I don't want to think about it, but I have to. Someone has to. I see the signs of spring and I weep...
— Patricia Hamill, Fearless
All myths have a basis in fact
— Samaire Provost, Mad World: Epidemic
Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.
— Julia Child, My Life in France
The more I know about people, the more I love zombies.
— J.J. Zep
No more room in hell? Fuck that, I made a reservation!
— Wednesday Lee Friday
I've got everything I need right here." That sentimental thought met a room full of cheesy and sarcastic "aw's" and an empty water bottle thrown at my head. No, stop guys, really. You're embarrassing me.
— Rachel Higginson, Love and Decay, Episode Ten
Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just... wishing. And wishes don't come true.
— Peter Clines, Ex-Communication
Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague.
— Ace Antonio Hall
I wasn't the only one hungry on the road, it seemed; a single bite—even a minor scratch—from one of the infected, and we were as good as dead. (And so the cycle repeats.)
— Bryant A. Loney, Exodus in Confluence
Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!
— Jennie Breeden
People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy.
— Molly Looby, ZA
In you, she saw hope.”“You mean she saw his next meal.
— Nicki Elson, Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
You know what would be awesome? . . . If I could have a machete.
— Molly Looby, ZA
A cemetery?" I chuckle, but the pitch is a bit higher than I expected. "At night? With a full moon? Um ... did you see any, uh, zombies, you, while you were there?"Shiko blinks at me a few times. "No"I slump in relief. "Thank God. I mean, I don't want to be the first to die. The funny guy always dies first, for shock value, you know. Rourke would get killed next, because it's be a heroic sacrifice or something." I motion to Shiko. "You'd live, though, unless you had sex."... Shiko has the look of an addled kitten, complete with head tilt. Rourke sighs and leans toward her, embarrassed. 'You'll have to excuse him. According to his mother he has an irrational fear of something called the zombie apocalypse.""It's not irrational!
— Vaughn R. Demont, Coyote's Creed
Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.
— Nicki Elson, Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella