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Handling the Undead

Book by John Ajvide Lindqvist · 10 quotes · Death, Grief, Life

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“…catastrophe eclipses everything.”

Emotion Catastrophe

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“Livet är vad vi gör om det till att vara.”

Life Inspirational Imagination Wise Childhood

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“The reliving are regarded as vegetables, without will, or thought. This is wrong. They are like jellyfish. Their behaviour is influenced by their environment. They have a will. The will of the person thinking of them. No one is prepared to accept this. We should isolate them completely. We should destroy them. Burn them. Instead, they will now be released into the uncontrolled thoughts of the public at large. It will end badly. I do not want to be present when this occurs.”

Death Fear Despair Denial Zombies

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“The presence of the military car strengthened him in his belief that he had done the right thing not to reveal himself. When the military comes into the picture, something else goes out the window.”

Freedom Rights Military Martial Law

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“Two months ago, the table had been full of things: fruit, mail, a toy, a flower picked during a walk, something Elias had made at daycare. The stuff of life.”

Life Death Grief

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“After she had read part of the book she started to cry. Because there would never be another book about Bruno the Beaver. Because he had died with his creator. Because the Waterman had finally got him.”

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“Death makes us strangers to one another.”

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“For me death is a wolf…”

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“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions of years ago by aliens. Soon they’ll be back for the harvest.”

Earth Death Aliens Harvest Farming Cattle

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“Seconds, minutes…one second we are born, one second we die.”

Life Death Time

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