Joe McKinney > Quotes

“These arent your mother's zombies!”
― Joe McKinney

“... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?”
“Those are brave words, Tiresias.”
“New parents can’t afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.”
― Joe McKinney, Dead City

“It hadn’t seemed real, standing down in the lobby and watching Beijing tear itself apart, but once I found out the Internet was down . . . well, that was the clincher.”
― Joe McKinney, Plague of the Undead

“Buildings, streets, the economy, the government, even our families, stay together simply because we want them to. Without that will, that desire to maintain, things fall apart.”
― Joe McKinney, Quarantined

“Humor is the last refuge of the damned.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“But you know how women are.  They’re not happy unless they’re complaining about something.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“the dead still obey the laws of physics, don’t they?”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“No matter how bad things get, you always get yourself sorted out in the end, don’t you?”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“Babies had a way of casually destroying things.  They had a lot in common with earthquakes and rabid dogs that way.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“The saying used to go ‘what you don’t know can’t hurt you,’ but it’s changed in this world.  Now it’s ‘what you don’t know can eat you.’ From”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“Women must be weak to love a baby enough to hold it to their breast. Women’s hearts must be weak to sacrifice for their children. Women must be weak to take the seed of the man. Because women are weak, a woman cannot keep the truth. Love triumphs over truth. So a woman’s words are lies.” ”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“Time flies when you’re firing a sub machine gun. ”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“It didn’t matter if they were black or white or Mexican, they all grew up with a sense of entitlement that was sickening. Everybody owed them something. They assumed they could talk to the law the same way they talked to their friends because the world had gone soft and they knew it. Everything was tolerated because nobody was at fault.”
― Joe McKinney, Flesh Eaters

“When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“The gruff, gold-hearted Brooklyn guys who won’t hesitate to help someone out. The way New Yorkers pull together when they need to.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“like Daleks in Dr Who.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“Now I know she couldn’t ambush a panda bear on Quaaludes.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“I think everyone in a two mile radius heard. She doesn’t get pissed that often, but when she does, not even God is going to defy her.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“I was not programmed to believe that human beings – human beings in my family that I loved – could be out there killing other human beings that I loved and . . . and eating them.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“Bornavirus LX”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“Cutting off he head just makes a dangerous bowling ball with teeth. ”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“The hearts of men are hard as stone. The man has no need of the tear. The man has no need of the lie. The man has no weakness. The man kills. The man dies. That is the boon and the burden of the man.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“It is both good and horrible to talk with Death when you know he’s sitting at your table.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“I tell you the only real mystery in life is why every woman on this planet isn't a lesbian.”
― Joe McKinney, Mutated

“Most people had no idea there was only a thin veneer between their comfortable lives and the end of civilization as they knew it.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“Flashlights were effective, but they also screamed “I’M RIGHT FUCKING HERE!” to anyone within view.”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set

“I shot her square in the nose and the back of her head blew apart, like a biological firework packed with flesh, bone and hair. Two”
― Joe McKinney, Ultimate Undead Collection: The Zombie Apocalypse Best Sellers Boxed Set