Shane Carrow > Quotes

“There is a world of difference between city Australia and country Australia. It has nothing to do with wealth or education, nothing to do with Southern Cross tattoos and mullets, nothing to do with politics or income or class. It has everything to do with whether you know how to fix an engine, clean a rifle and birth a calf. Whether you know your neighbours. Whether you have enough foresight and pragmatism to convene a town meeting, throw a barricade up along the main road and strip refugees of their supplies.”
― Shane Carrow, Rise of the Undead

“We’re cut off. We’ve lived our whole lives in this stream of information: television, radio, Facebook, Twitter, ABC, SBS, Sky News, Seven, Nine, Ten, Reuters and AFP and AP and the BBC. Up-to-date, up to the second, right there in your pocket. Now it’s gone and we have no idea whether anyone else is alive or dead. They might be or they might not be. Schroedinger’s world.”
― Shane Carrow, Rise of the Undead

“Guns are not just for killing. Guns are for having, for showing; guns are a warning.”
― Shane Carrow, The Wasteland

“From the first-class luxury of Captain Claes to the shared hot bunks of the drivers and engineers, from Frenchman to Englishman to German to Turk, everybody shifted uneasily in their sleep.”
― Shane Carrow, Vampire on the Orient Express

“We’ll be fine,” I said stubbornly. “The government will sort it out. We just have to wait here and keep ourselves safe.”
Matt gestured out at the city – the dead roaming the streets, the river silent and empty of evacuation boats, even the fighter jets gone from the sky now. Nothing but silence and death.
“We’ll be okay,” I said.
But I didn’t believe it.”
― Shane Carrow, Rise of the Undead

“was going to be like. It’s the”
― Shane Carrow, End Times: The Complete Series

“Four people, six guns. That’s a much better equation than we ever could have hoped for. There are, I guess, more guns floating around in Australia than most people would imagine. But there still aren’t that many, and I reckon we’re doing better than most survivors.
On the other hand, maybe the only reason we're survivors at all is because we have guns. If we hadn’t found that Glock, what might have happened as we ran for Liam’s truck in Manjimup? If we hadn’t traded the Kawasaki for the Winchester, what might have happened the night we met Ellie, when I fired a warning shot to scare off her attackers, and they left without a fight?
I don’t need to ask what might have happened the night in Albany, when the soldiers were chasing us over backyard fences. I know exactly what would have happened.”
― Shane Carrow

“The world was a dark and nasty place and he’d seen enough of that now; knew that people could die at any minute with their problems unsolved, their love unrequited, their dreams unmet.”
― Shane Carrow, Vampire on the Orient Express

“That’s when you realise just how dependent you are on things you don’t understand, and just how deeply fucked you are when they’re gone. We’d”
― Shane Carrow, Rise of the Undead

“I can sense it in him. He’s crazy: no matter how lucid he sounds, or how reasonable he seems, something deep inside him is broken. He sees the world differently to the rest of us. He doesn’t really grasp that anybody exists apart from himself.”
― Shane Carrow, Kingdom of Hell