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This special edition commemorates the fifth anniversary of the release of 'Warm Bodies' and 'The New Hunger', two novels that blend romance with a dystopian world. 'Warm Bodies' tells the story of a zombie who falls in love, while 'The New Hunger' continues the narrative, exploring themes of survival and human nature in a post-apocalyptic setting.
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“Breathing is optional, but I need some air.”
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“I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog the streets. Most glass is shattered and the wind drifting through the hollow high-rises moans like an animal left to die. I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you're arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which road you took.”
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“If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.”
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“I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.”
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“My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.”
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“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
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“Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.”
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“What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?”
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“We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.”
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“Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”
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“We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.”
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“But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.”
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“Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.”
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“Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.”
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“Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.”
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“I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.”
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“...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.”
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“We smile, because this is how we save the world.”
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“I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.”
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“I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.”
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“She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.”
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“What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?”
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“The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.”
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“Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.”
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“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?”
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“I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?”
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“Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.”
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“It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.”
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“In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.”
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“The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.”
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“I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.”
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“We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.”
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“She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.”
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“You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?”
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“God has made us study partner. We need to talk about our project.”
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“A month ago there was nothing on Earth I missed, enjoyed, or longed for. I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of easy things.”
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“Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.”
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“Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.”
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“I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.”
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“We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.”
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“Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?”
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“I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.”
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“Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.”
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“Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?”
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“Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.”
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“Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.”
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“The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.”
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“All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.”
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“I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.”
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“I hate that she's hurt. I hate that she's been hurt, by me and by others, throughout the entire arc of her life. I barely remember pain, but when I see it in her I feel it in myself, in disproportionate measure. it creeps into my eyes, stinging, burning.”
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