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Rise of the Governor (The Walking Dead: Novels, #1) Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman
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“It ain’t the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here … it’s the living.”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. —Nietzsche”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“It’s never-ever going to be okay, never-ever-ever-ever-ever.”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. "That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.”
robert kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. —John Dryden”
Robert Kirkman, The Fall of the Governor: Part One
“C'mon, take a load off....I won't bite.”
Robert Kirkman, The Fall of the Governor: Part One
“Chaos theory is the impossibility of a closed system remaining stable. This town is doomed. There’s nobody at the controls …”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“When you’re really, really scared, you don’t shake like in the movies. You grow still, like an animal bristling. It’s only afterward you start shaking.”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“A severed ear sticks to the windshield, and Philip puts the wipers on. They”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“As the Lady from Borneo digs out his eyeball, the thing eventually uncorks from its socket.”
Robert Kirkman, The Fall of the Governor: Part One
“Brian discovers that this first group features two bricklayers, a machinist, a doctor, a gun-store owner, a veterinarian, a plumber, a barber, an auto mechanic, a farmer, a fry cook, and an electrician. The second group—Brian thinks of them as the Dependents—features the sick, the young, and all the white-collar workers with obscure administrative backgrounds. These are the former middle managers and office drones, the paper pushers and corporate executives who once pulled down six-figure incomes running divisions of huge multinationals—now just taking up space, as obsolete as cassette tapes.”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor
“For a brief instant, Brian flinches at the glacier of sorrow cutting through him, the connection between the two siblings as thick as blood, as deep as the earth, now fracturing Brian's soul with the power of tectonic plates. The weight of their common history-- the endless tedium of grammar school, the blessed summer vacations, the passing of late-night whispers from one bunk bed to the other, their first beers on that ill-fated Appalachian camping trip, their secrets, their fights, their small-town dreams foiled by life's cruel equations-- all of it slices through his soul.”
Jay Bonansinga (Author) Robert Kirkman (Author), Rise of the Governor
“The graceful”
Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor