Dead City Quotes

“Zues?" I said.
"His computer. He named it." Then she whispered conspiratorially, "He acts like it's a person."
"I do not," he said as we walked down the hall toward his room.
"You gave it a birthday party," she said.
Grayson stopped walking for a moment. "Annual hard-drive maintenance and software upgrades do not count as a birthday party."
"No," she said. "But singing 'Happy Birthday' to it does."
He took a deep breath. They've obviously been through this before. "You know I was testing the new voice-recognition software."
Natalie looked at me. "Birthday party.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“Death is part of the natural order of life,” she would explain. “You shouldn’t be scared of it. You should be respectful of it.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“(If yours is not available, you can always steal your sister’s.)”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“If this had been a public-school locker room, there would have been some gray jumbo-sized garbage cans nearby, and I probably could've taken care of cleanup by myself. But apparently the girls of St. Andrew's don't throw anything away, because all they had was a tiny wastebasket and some recycling bins. There were bins for paper, plastic, and glass, but none for rotting corpses. Go figure.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“I hate zombies.
I know that sound prejudiced. I'm sure some zombies are really nice to kittens and love their parents. But it's been my experience that most are not the kind of people you want sending you friend requests.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“As Natalie stood there holding the book, I tried to think of any reason why three zombies would be so desperate to get a copy of Little Women. “Ever read it?” she asked me. “Of course,” I answered. “Haven’t you?” She shook her head. “Never interested me.” “Really? Not even in fifth grade?” She laughed. “In fifth grade my favorite book was Emerging Principles of Nanotechnology.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“He was tall like a basketball player, and superthin. His hair had been dyed shoe-polish black, and he had dark circles under his eyes. He wore mismatched earrings and, judging by the splotches along his jawline, he also wore makeup. Very bad makeup. Even by New York subway standards he was weird.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“(But it was still better than our class visit to the wastewater treatment plant.)”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“My mom had mismatched eyes. It’s called “heterochromia,” and I have it too. My left eye is blue and my right is green, just like hers. She said it was our special genetic bond.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“omega?”
― james ponti, Dead City

“Glass Face, meanwhile, had taken all the glass shards out of his cheek, so now he would be more accurately called Open Wound Face.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“Wagwan?” is Jamaican slang for “What’s going on?”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“We’ll have to go down into Dead City.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“To say that Grayson’s little brothers are loud is like saying jet engines are kind of noisy. They sounded like a troop of howler monkeys as they raced down the hallway toward his room.”
― James Ponti, Dead City