This Shattered Land Quotes

“Even so long after the Outbreak, I still had to fight the urge to reach for a light switch. Old habits die hard.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“The biggest threat to the future of the United States isn’t the walking dead, it’s the anger and resentment of the living.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“no plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“as long as I had a good blade and the means to make fire, I could survive just about anything.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“Anything that makes life easier is worth having around, even if only for the positive psychological effect.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“People like me are something of a necessity. In order for the good people of the world to sleep safely at night, they need men who are just as ruthless and nasty as the bad guys to stand ready to do violence on their behalf. That was my job. To”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“Axes are tremendously useful tools, and they are great for dispatching the infected.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“Before the end of the world, this place would have been bustling with throngs of tourists from Charlotte and other nearby towns at this time of year.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“If the Phage got loose somewhere rural, or isolated, it was a hell of a lot easier to contain than if it broke out in a major city.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“It was as if the memories of the life I had once lived happened to someone else, a strange sort of psychological disconnect.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“Of course, I woke up. I always do, and like always, I was none too happy about it.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“The infected have an uncanny ability to track people by triangulating sound.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land

“Switzerland, with its mountainous borders and well-armed citizenry, was one of a handful of nations not to succumb to the undead.”
― James N. Cook, This Shattered Land