Left Alive #1 Quotes

“I don’t think there’s anything left of the government. I mean, I’ve heard all the stories about them holding out in Vermont and New Hampshire as well as parts of New York State, but it’s all a bunch of shit. The government”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“forced”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“something”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“can do. Slowly I’m beginning to remember the pain in my left arm, the bear trap, and the stranger whose head I obliterated. “Here’s another one,” she says, sticking another pill on my lips. “It’s a tranquilizer.” “Why?” I ask, parting my lips and feeling the pill drop down onto my tongue. I’m answered by the water bottle being put to my lips, and another shot of cold water fills my mouth.”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“acid broke down the compound, making their waste devastating. They said that once it was absorbed, it ruined the cellular walls of plant cells, causing them to be weak, to die. I don’t know the science behind it, but it spread like a plague through plant life. All across the Midwest, crops withered, trees rotted, and forests turned brown. They said that the soil was completely useless due to highly acidic toxins which destroyed all the minerals and nutrients plants needed to thrive. Everything started dying. We watched on television as the Amazon and lush forests”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“acid broke down the compound, making their waste devastating. They said that once it was absorbed, it ruined the cellular walls of plant cells, causing them to be weak, to die. I don’t know the science behind it, but it spread like a plague through plant life. All across the Midwest, crops withered, trees rotted, and forests turned brown. They said that the soil was completely useless due to highly acidic toxins which destroyed all the minerals and nutrients plants needed to thrive. Everything started dying. We watched on television as the Amazon and lush forests in India began to wither and blacken. The governments took action, quickly quarantining any infected areas, halting foot traffic, and trying their hardest to stop the spread. To be honest, it could have worked had we realized sooner. Everything along the Missouri, the Platte, the Canadian, the Pecos, Red, and Mississippi rivers all began to die. The runoff and seepage killed everything, turning the heart of America into a”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“important what day it is anymore, or the year for that matter. If you’re reading this, all you need to know is that I was there. I was there when all of this happened. If that isn’t important to you, then I beg of you, put this down and leave it for someone who does find it important. Someone out there has to know what happened. Someone will need to know in the end. I remember in the years leading up to all this that we were a people who idealized the end. We watched TV shows, stocked up on canned foods, and shared our plans to survive the apocalypse with each other. If we’re honest, we wanted it to happen. We wanted all the rules to burn away. We dreamed of a primal world where we”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“Lake Huron is now as much of a wasteland as the surrounding area.”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“spend as much time as I am able writing, but also enjoy downtime with the wife and kids, and am a bit of a movie buff as well. I thrive on sarcasm and nerdism and am currently addicted to The Big Bang Theory amongst other things.”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“Though I may think good things and regret what I do, thoughts count for nothing. Thoughts are little more than dust in the wind, blown away without any consequence or meaning.”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

“There was always something worth staying alive for, despite how much it hurt to keep living”
― Jeremy Laszlo, Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel