Peter Meredith > Quotes

“I thought I knew what love was….I had this vision of it. Flowers and walks holding hands, and making love, and smiling, and being happy. But now I know what it really is. Love is a poison—and the only antidote is him. Without him I will die.”
― Peter Meredith

“In each of us is an infinite capacity to love, but only a finite capacity to hate.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse

“like an out of control fireman; there was a hissing”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Survivors

“He knew their type: fatherless gangbangers raised on the streets where morality essentially boiled down to: if it feels good do it, and if someone gets hurt in the process of me getting mine, well that's just their too bad.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse

“I was a second class citizen before the zombies and I'm a second class citizen now.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse

“I'm not going to love again," she declared in little clipped words. It was though she bit off the very end of each. "I can't.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse

“Science is about truth,”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Survivors

“Sarah”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Outcasts

“Throwing a skillet was neither an art nor a science, it was actually fun.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Outcasts

“I kind of feel like a boat that's lost its anchor, you know? I'm just drifting away.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse

“she was very fast and she was able to elude the zombies by running around the block and then back to the court house where another zombie in the shredded-up uniform of a county sheriff had been on its hands and knees, eating the white-heads off the clovers. It hadn’t seen her before and she didn’t see it, now.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Outcasts

“the Subaru,”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse

“He paused again. “Hello?” he called out. “Yoo-hoo!”
― Peter Meredith, Generation Z

“The image produced by the scope was wonderfully sharp, but also extremely narrow,”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Outcasts

“If facts were discarded and reality ignored, Jillybean was doing just dandy.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse War

“She had traded a dangerous freedom for the surety of slavery. Not”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Outcasts

“The stones plunked dismally, sinking one after the other.”
― Peter Meredith, Generation Z

“Back in the old days it was considered normal to hand your two-month old baby to a nanny or some local lady with a houseful of brats. At the most, people kept a child until pre-school and sometimes pre-pre-school if there was a government program in place—Head Start or some such that did little besides destroying the concept of motherhood.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Survivors

“They took turns sleeping. They ate, and they lived.”
― Peter Meredith, Generation Z

“It’s alright,” he told her. “Well, really it’s not. It’ll never be alright, but you get, what’s the word? Inured?”
― Peter Meredith, Generation Z

“problem. These people tore the catheters from their arms”
― Peter Meredith, War of the Undead Day One

“Don’t you know anything about women?” Mike didn’t. They could be the most confounding of God’s creatures. One moment happy as a clam, the next spitting nails.”
― Peter Meredith, Generation Z

“Time was wiggy in so much dark.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Survivors

“Jenn’s oar struck one, causing it to roll over. As it did, the putrid flesh of its face slid off like hot cheese.”
― Peter Meredith, Generation Z

“His ideal meeting was thirty seconds long: What’s the problem? I see and what possible solutions are there? Okay, I like the sound of the third option, what are the pros and cons? Good. Make it happen.”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Executioner

“was”
― Peter Meredith, The Queen of the Dead

“his mind wandered ceaselessly, hopping from memory to make-believe and then to his grim reality in a painful loop.”
― Peter Meredith, The Punished

“vacuums. A broken belt was about the limit most people”
― Peter Meredith, The Apocalypse Outcasts

“he could see there were many people just like him: people alone and in pain, on the outside of life looking in.”
― Peter Meredith, War of the Undead Day One