"Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used."
- Max Brooks
"The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's dominant life form. We were a shaken, broken species, driven to the edge of extincti..."
"Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack."
"I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears."
"Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist."
"Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence..."
"Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature."
"There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts."
"After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats."
"America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and f..."