Midlife Zombie Hunter Quotes

“This life . . . we only get one shot at it. There are no do-overs. No second chances. We don’t always know when we are saying goodbye for the last time.” Her eyes opened, glittering with unshed tears. “I learned that the hard way. Follow your heart, my young friend. Follow it and don’t be afraid of change. Don’t be afraid to chase after what makes you happy.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter

“How can they be so blind?” she screeched at the top of her lungs. “Because they have been at the top for so long, they don’t think they need to change. Or accept help. Or acknowledge that they might have been doing it wrong,”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter

“Love all, trust few, and do wrong to none,” he said. “Will Shakespeare got it close, but maybe it should be love deeply the one you love, trust few, and do wrong only to those who need an ass kicking.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter

“Don’t take this the wrong way, but I really don’t want to ride with you back to the house smelling like that.” Sarge wrinkled up his nose”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter

“For just a moment I didn’t see myself. Not my forty-three-year-old face or body. Not the wrinkles I was earning every damn day or the increasing laxity of my skin. Not the failure I so often saw. Certainly not the girl who wondered if she’d ever get it right. No, I saw someone else. I saw a damn boss bitch ready to take on the day. I saw a woman who had earned her scars. I saw a woman who faced each day with all the energy she had left. I saw a woman who loved with all her heart, even when it hurt her. I saw a woman I liked very much; a woman I’d like to see more of.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter

“How do we change it?” Kinkly asked. I looked up at her. “Honestly, people like that don’t change. All you can do is wait for them to die and make sure you teach the next generations to be better. To do better.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter

“And just like that I was smiling again. Because he was right. I’d find him. Whoever he was. Maybe I’d just needed a little practice with the fools who’d come and gone.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter

“For just a moment I didn’t see myself. Not my forty-three-year-old face or body. Not the wrinkles I was earning every damn day or the increasing laxity of my skin. Not the failure I so often saw. Certainly not the girl who wondered if she’d ever get it right. No, I saw someone else. I saw a damn boss bitch ready to take on the day. I saw a woman who had earned her scars. I saw a woman who faced each day with all the energy she had left. I saw a woman who loved with all her heart, even when it hurt her. I saw a woman I liked very much; a woman I’d like to see more of. My jaw trembled, and I clenched my teeth together. No more tears.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter

“Pain is just weakness leaving the body.”
― Shannon Mayer, Midlife Zombie Hunter