The Last Kids on Earth Quotes

“chill out. We make root beer cocktails and we roast marshmallows and we kick back, relax, and enjoy the post-apocalyptic sunset.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“But like I tell him, that doesn’t explain the feeling in my gut. He tells me the feeling in my gut is probably just gas and I sock him on the arm.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“Something was covering the windows—wrapping around the bus. A monster hand.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“Quint holds up his hand. “Dirk, you have no reason to be angry at me. You clearly have some sort of chip on your shoulder, and—” “Wait, he does?” I look at Dirk. “Is it a chocolate chip?” Quint”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“I was totally not a hero, totally not a tough guy, totally not fighting giant monsters. But look at me now. Battling a gargantuan beast on the roof of the local CVS. Life is crazy like that.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“Xbox and the toaster oven and the RC helicopter and the massage chair and the Christmas lights and all that jazz.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“Forty-two days ago, I was regular Jack Sullivan: thirteen years old, living an uneventful life in the uninteresting town of Wakefield.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“Blarg”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“I earn them by completing goals and challenges.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“That’s me. Not the giant monster. Beneath the giant monster. The kid on his back, with the splintered bat. The handsome kid, about to get eaten.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“new thing that is horrific”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“I’m scared. Beyond scared. Scared to the second power. Scared squared.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“We’re trapped. Trapped like rats. Trapped like trapped rats in a giant rat trap made for trapping rats.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“Dirk”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“happened, well . . . we split up. Now he’s probably zombified or headed out west, along with everyone else in town. When everything first happened, I heard it was safer out west. But I haven’t heard anything about that since, like, day four, so who knows. But still, there’s the chance Quint is alive, somewhere, and this walkie could reach him. So I cannot quit! Seven finger burns later, I get the walkie working. I squeeze the button and it lets out a soft hiss that tells me it’s transmitting.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“My Spidey sense is tingling.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“See? Ping-Pong solves all problems.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“My blood runs cold. I can barely breathe. I can’t even think of something sarcastic to say.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“Before we go driving anywhere, we need gasoline.” See, we’ve been using gasoline by the gallon-ful to run the generator for the Xbox and the toaster oven and the RC helicopter and the massage chair and the Christmas lights and all that jazz. I had what I THOUGHT was a brilliant plan to get us some easy electricity. Y’know those wheels that mice run on in labs and junk? Well, I was going to grab a treadmill from the high school gym and . . . Quint”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“revealing”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“trying to catch my breath. It takes about, oh, two hours.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“every day I discover some new thing that is horrific and hair-raising and makes you wanna hurl.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth

“Those butter slicks saved our butts,” Dirk says. I nod. Quint’s good at saving butts. Saved mine many times. He’s a primo butt-saver.”
― Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth