Zombicorns Quotes

“Being a person, I had come to
realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people
do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other
people.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“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

“The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty
years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s
wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s
musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the
sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here
in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for
someone to remember them.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“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.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me,
extinguishes me.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“And so. And so I choose to go on serving it. I choose to go north, even though like every other direction, it is rationally without hope.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I don’t have AMRV, which means I still suffer from the cruelest disease of our species, terminal aspiration.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“How you love your heroes when you are young and safe and the world has not ended.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realized
on some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:
I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwood
floors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granite
countertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely was
running his life.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“They don't plant in rows because they're idiots,and they don't use farm equipment because they're idiots,and they don't plant in spring because they're idiots..”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“It’s a mad, mad world when your best friend is a dog and your second-best friend is an automatic rifle, but such was life in the Aze.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“Why do I want to take care of Mr. President, particularly when
he’s desperate like this? Sure, he has been useful—he has saved me
from many a newzie—but there aren’t many newzies left. And it’s not
like Mr. President has infected me with a virus that predisposes me to
want to care for him.
I think it’s because Mr. President is a symbol, and symbols
matter. Caroline liked to say that I was a sentimentalist. But sentiment
is really just an appreciation for the reality and signi"cance of
symbols—which is why I’m still here, and she’s not.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“Mia,' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.
She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“Anyway, I learned an important lesson from all of this: While gun ownership is
morally reprehensible in the civilized world, firepower is more or less
de rigeur in a zombie apocalypse.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“But what did I have left to contribute? Just this? Just being the last known pair of truly human eyes to look up into the sky and experience the ␣eeting ␣ush of hope? Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z’s is not so terrifying. Nature will take
its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of
the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that
people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the
last few thousand years.”
― John Green, Zombicorns

“The difference between people and dogs is that dogs know how
to be dogs.” I know this to be true, at least insofar as Mr. President is
an exemplary dog: Even today, with three bottles of wine left and the
air soaked with putrid death, Mr. President is a dog in full possession
of his dogness.”
― John Green, Zombicorns