R.R. Haywood > Quotes

“That humans have conscious thought is the one thing that separates them from everything else, but that conscious thought has wrought more damage than all of the combined life that went before them.”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“What the actual fuck? I mean . . . what the actual fucking fuck?’ ‘I’m”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“Fearless and selfless to a fault and that’s the problem with honourable men: they’ll do the bad thing, all right, but they’ll suffer for it afterwards. Not on the surface, but deep inside. A niggle that can turn into a nag and eventually leads to a noose or the barrel of a gun.”
― R.R. Haywood, Extinct

“Can’t remember how it goes now…oh I got it…para para in the sky living proof shit can fly…’ Blowers says, taking a big step away with a grin. Clarence rolls his eyes, pulls a face and plants his feet to rest his assault rifle across the crook of his arms. ‘Marine marine in a boat…living proof shit can float…”
― R.R. Haywood, The Undead Day Twenty

“Time is immutable. It cannot be challenged, nor can it be stopped. You can’t go back any more than you can go forward.”
― R.R. Haywood, Delio, Phase One

“Paula asked how Marcy can speak Dave. I do not know what that means. Dave is my name. Dave is not a language.”
― R.R. Haywood, The Undead Twenty-Five (Season Four): The Heat

“Still moving backwards, I look at the shiny blade, then at the mass of infected people, then back to the blade. ‘Fuck this,’ I mutter. I’m off, running away as I throw the knife off to one side, then regret the action immediately. I go back, grab the knife and start running again.”
― R.R. Haywood, The Undead Day One

“The battles are at night. The worst of times. The most awful of times, when he fights to prevent sleep while feeling so tired that all he wants is sleep. Sleep brings the nightmares. The ever-worsening terrors in his head. They become confusing and jumbled.”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“Outside,’ she says, ‘they’re . . .’ ‘Indeed,’ Ben says, and finally pulls his gaze away from the window to look at her. In the surrealness of the moment he takes in the cat-like shape of her eyes. ‘Outside,’ she whispers, ‘they’re dinosaurs.”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“It’s funny how a journey back is always shorter than a journey out, but I guess that’s because of the unknown factor of finding the way there.”
― R.R. Haywood, Fiction Land

“Always good manners, the Americans,’ Robert says, ‘Warmongering, greedy, fanatically religious nutjobs, but they do it with nice manners…”
― R.R. Haywood, A Town Called Discovery

“Sometimes you can’t smoke. Sometimes you can’t do the things you want. That’s life and what war means.”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“Twenty-five to thirty-five.’ ‘What is?’ ‘You are, mate.’ He shakes his head, baffled and lost. ‘Your age,’ she says, ‘twenty-five to thirty-five.’ ‘That’s not very precise.’ ‘You’re not a bloody tree, mate, you don’t have rings up your arse I can count.’ ‘Yeah, but…”
― R.R. Haywood, A Town Called Discovery

“That she is beautiful is beyond doubt. That she’s as empty inside as the space outside the ship is also beyond doubt.”
― R.R. Haywood, The Worldship Humility

“If she shouted he could get angry. If she ordered him he could tell her to fuck off, but that kindness sinks deeper and tugs at a deep instinct to do as asked. ‘Thank”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“Tyranny doesn't start with a maniac doing bad things. It starts with someone doing an action they believe in and having the ability to convince others of their vision.”
― R.R. Haywood, The Undead Day Sixteen

“POW camp,’ Harry says with a heavy shrug. ‘POW? What, like prisoner of war?’ Harry”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“This is the apocalypse right here. This is the fall of humanity in all the grot and shit. It’s offensive. She is offended by the sight of it. By the smell and by the cheapness of life and what it was before it all came crashing down.”
― R.R. Haywood, Blood on the Floor

“it's like Tolkien and Martin did acid with Pratchett and made a city”
― R.R. Haywood, Fiction Land

“This time Harry takes the lead and threads a staggered route up the steep bank. Within minutes, Ben is breathing hard with sweat beading on his face.”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“He was a very proud man, and in a way, I almost feel glad”
― R.R. Haywood, The Undead: The First Seven Days

“Every choice we make defines our lives. Every decision ripples out to open new doors while others slam shut with finality.”
― R.R. Haywood, The Undead Day Fifteen

“Know what pain is?’ Safa asks. ‘Pain tells you when something is wrong, but not all pain has to be listened to. The pain receptor in my hand is telling my brain to let it go. My brain is telling my hand to fuck off and get over it cos my brain knows the heat isn’t bad enough to cause damage. So I can hold it for a bit without it doing anything bad. If it gets that bad I can swap hands, but that’s giving in to it, so you hold it and man up and ignore it – that tells the pain to do one.”
― R.R. Haywood, Executed

“and although the end is justified by the means, it still leaves a bitter aftertaste.”
― R.R. Haywood, Executed

“Why are we here? What for? To what purpose? Just to live? To exist? If so then let there be no constraints. But if there is a reason, then seek it. Seek it, Mr Croker.”
― R.R. Haywood, Fiction Land

“frown,”
― RR Haywood, The Undead Thirty-One. Winchester: Season Five. The Rain

“fellow psychotic when he saw one. Larson might speak with an air of calmness and sound full of common sense and judgement,”
― R.R. Haywood, The Undead Day Fourteen

“I realise now we have been humoured throughout our history of so-called domination of the planet. She could remove us anytime she wishes to do so. Atom bombs, wars, mining and taking away the vast resources of oil, gas and coal, all of those things are tiny compared to what she can do and what’s more, I get the strong impression this, what I see now in front of me, is nowhere near the fullest fury she can reveal.”
― R.R. Haywood, The Undead The Second Week

“He knows they have different laws for terrorism, but this is England, not America.”
― R.R. Haywood, Extracted

“Every power that has ever existed only existed because of the lives they took.”
― R.R. Haywood, Delio, Phase One