Warm Bodies Quotes

“That’s like taking away Batman’s mansion and making him live in a two-up two-down. It might be a smaller house, but he’s still Batman.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“As she was growing up, never did I consider that Lucy might fall pregnant at fifteen to a man almost a decade older than her, then become a mum by her sixteenth birthday. I wanted so much more for her than that. I sometimes wonder if the women in this family are genetically predisposed to be attracted to the wrong men. We’re like flies to shit.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“I love being around my daughter. She’s my only child, but that hadn’t been my plan. I’d hoped to have three at least. To build the family I never had. But history repeated itself when, knowing no better, I did what my own mum had done and married a man who hated women almost as much as he hated himself. Lucy was my wake-up call. It wasn’t until I reached thirty-two and she came along that I found a reason to leave her father before I too ended up turning to alcohol for support and drinking myself into an early grave. It was far better to live in a bedsit above a shop with a toddler, 120 miles away from the city in which I’d been all my life, than to sit at home awaiting the next punch.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“I had no brothers and sisters, only an aggressive father and a mother who used alcohol to numb the physical and mental anguish he inflicted upon us. Such a large portion of my early years was spent living quietly, trying my best not to cause upset. I’d float around their house like a ghost, in fear of waking the beast. That’s why I want each of my grandchildren to make a mess, be noisy and cause chaos. To be the child I never was.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“If she was trying to go about her business unnoticed, she wouldn’t be wearing snake-print leggings that make her legs look like two anacondas swallowing wild deer whole.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Such a large portion of my early years was spent living quietly, trying my best not to cause upset. I’d float around their house like a ghost, in fear of waking the beast.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“What I think is that I’d rather share a bottle of Chianti with Hannibal Lecter than allow Connor inside my home.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Prisoners of war have suffered better treatment.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Principles and morality are all well and good, but they won’t put food on the table or clothes on their backs, or keep a roof over their heads.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Everything I do is to give them the opportunities I never had, and which I was unable to offer their mum when she was their age.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Believe me, if I was selling my body, I’d be in debt from the amount of refunds I’d be giving.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“She’s hardly the size of a supermodel herself. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw donuts.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Cannabis, Linda. Not cannibal!”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw donuts.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“I thought my deliveries were cloaked under the cover of darkness and wouldn’t garner attention from the neighbours. Clearly, I was wrong.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“I realise it featured more coats than Carrie Bradshaw’s closet.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“It’s that relationships require honesty and openness. And I’m capable of neither.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“I likely only have a limited window of opportunity to keep up the story that Lizzie is playing Florence fucking Nightingale with Chlamydia Kelly, and not that parts of her are dissolving in the stomach acid of the pigs ahead of me.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“And I mean that quite literally. Because I pulled them out of his abdomen myself before scattering his body parts across the county.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Masks always slip, no matter how tight you wear them.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“I had no brothers and sisters, only an aggressive father and a mother who used alcohol to numb the physical and mental anguish he inflicted upon us. Such a large portion of my early years was spent living quietly, trying my best not to cause upset. I’d float around their house like a ghost, in fear of waking the beast.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“I had no brothers and sisters, only an aggressive father and a mother who used alcohol to numb the physical and mental anguish he inflicted upon us.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“lane in the nearby town of Leamington Spa.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“you might as well have slapped me across the tits with that cardboard cut-out of Olaf propped up in the corner of the hall.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Do you remember when Linda chose it for book club thinking it was a memoir about growing old?”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Look at that parsnip,’ she says. ‘It looks funny.’ ‘What do you mean?’ I ask. ‘It looks like a finger.’ I don’t correct her. Instead, I smile to myself. ‘Oh yes, you’re right,’ I reply. ‘So it does.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“Esme loves nothing more than to sing, so she launches into the chorus of ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’, a word she has been practising ever since watching the film Mary Poppins”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“My youngest grandchild, Esme, appears and plonks herself on the bottom stair.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“What . . . what did you do to him?’ she said, glaring at the young man.
‘I didn’t do anything.’
‘He’s dead. You’ve killed him.’
‘He was dead when he arrived here.’
‘People don’t just turn up at a house dead.’
‘They do if you live here.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies

“They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. They’re not for me though. My kind of diamond comes on a cutting disc for an angle grinder. Because those things can slice through skin and bone like a knife through butter.”
― John Marrs, Warm Bodies