Amelia Cortez’s Reviews > World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War > Status Update

“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”

“The siafu, that’s what we were calling the infected now, weren’t something to be feared, they were something to be studied.”

“…makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they’re going to be okay. There’s a word for that kind of lie. Hope.”

“Only one could have foreseen this, and I don’t believe in him anymore.”

“Did you watch the news?

Yeah, for about five minutes every day: local headlines, sports, celebrity gossip. Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV?”

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“Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That’s not cynicism, that’s maturity. You can’t stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won’t leak.”

“You really don’t understand a refugee’s heart, do you? These people were desperate.”