Top 88 Lia Habel Quotes
#1. It's not like I enjoy introducing myself as a creature from beyond the grave.
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#2. What might not be there are the chances you have right now. If you can hold on another hour, another day - if you can live one more good, honorable minute - those are the victories. And they open up the whole world.
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#3. You know he's full of crap, right?" Chas spoke up.
"Grade A, gourmet crap," Coalhouse agreed.
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#4. In a seperate cloth pouch I found little bottles of shampoo and soap and a toothbrush and the like,as well as a tiny brown glass vial of perfumed oil. It smelled of violets and chocolate.
Yeah,like I needed the zombies to find me any more delicious.That'd be like a cow wearing eau de gravy.
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#5. Something that chemistry supplies are very good for." When he gave me an odd look, I unwrapped a Bunsen burner and twirled it in the light. "Making bombs.
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#6. Well, Dr. Elpinoy will never admit it, but he suffers from performance anxiety-"
"Oh, shut up, you old cad," Elpinoy said, finally uncrossing his arms.
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#7. I was surprised by the growl that wanted to well up in my throat ... I told myself it was stress, not my illness's way of saying, Get your own take-out.
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#8. The fact that she made this beeline for me both warmed my soul and made me want to turn around, walk out the door, and find a cliff to fling myself off of.
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#9. The girl was a walking garden. Flowers and vines had sprouted from within her very flesh, and were looped through hundreds of buttonholes and slits made in
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#10. Vespertine Mink? Is that you?"
The girl on the roof opposite lowered her lanterns and called back, "Pamela Roe?"
"Yeah, let's both let that sink in for a minute, it's a doozy!
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#11. No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.
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#12. All the while I rattled off a long list of curses in the soundproofed room of my mind.
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#13. As a youth I got my jollies by confronting my professors with facts that ran completely contrary to what they were trying to ram into our thick skulls. His expressions of bafflement and anger had never failed to amuse me.
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#14. You think so,hmm? It's on, then. Verbal pistols at dawn.
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#15. I let her ask the questions. Predictably, the main questions she had were 'What?' and 'Am I going to be on the menu?' Oh, and 'What?
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#16. You're about the stupidest thing on two legs.
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#17. I killed one! I stabbed it in the head with a parasol."
Even Nora couldn't find words for this revelation. Renfield was the first to comment. "I can't tell if that's the most inspiring thing I've ever heard of the most horrifying.
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#18. I'm here for every bit of your life. The bad parts, the scary parts. And I vow to do all you ask of me that is fair ... even at the end." I knew I didn't have to elaborate; I could see that he'd gotten it, and that it moved him. "I do.
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#19. The doc watched her go, and then said, very softly, "don't let it happen."
"Sorry?"
Samedi yanked his head back on, and once it was in place, looked at me very seriously. "Just ... don't let it happen."
He shuffled off into the other lab then, leaving me to stew in his words.
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#20. You have got to be kidding. Where'd they find it?"
"I like to think it was Santa finally coming through on years of passionate but ignored childhood letters.
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#21. I'd never had the chance to experiment before, but it seemed that irrational screaming was enough to make most people scram. Whodathunk?
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#22. Real ladies can give orders, Real gentlemen can take them, and Real zombies don't eat brains.
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#23. I stepped free of Isambard and shoved Michael in the chest. I caught him off guard. He tumbled to the dock, and rolled into the water with a splash.
"I hope there are zombie sharks in there and they bite you and you die!" I screamed.
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#24. Griswold!" a voice bellowed.
"We'll talk about this later," he said, then climbed to his feet and stood at attention. "Sir!"
I turned around, only to be confronted with the largest man I had ever seen in my life.
The end was nigh.
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#25. Boy, I am going to feed you to the infected myself, Michael growled. I think he almost made my brother cry. Good.
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#26. On the last page he'd written simply, She's so beautiful.
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#27. Tell him what I told the others-that I'm happy to have you watch me, and serve as my assistant, but only on my terms. Or,if you're feeling lucky ... you can tell him that Dearly said he can go to hell.
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#29. First,' Dad said, giving me a stern look, 'Captain Griswold and you [Nora] and i must have a little chat.'
I batted my eyelashes at him, even as my cheeks heated. Chas choked, and scrawled out, You stil ow me detales! Detales!!!
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#30. But ... ah ... not that I'm on your side now or anything, but you haven't exactly got a lot of time for drama of this quality.
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#31. Besides, if you're sick, I'm on life support. As wrong as that joke is.
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#32. I held up a book, one Renfield had grabbed from my bedside table in his haste to pack for me. I'd found it in the bottom of my valise, one of the first things he threw in. Underwear and books - the fellow clearly had his priorities straight.
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#33. Geez, woman, you're gonna dislocate my jaw."
"Well, don't do that in public, you brute!"
"Wow." Renfield adjusted his glasses. He was sitting across the table from them with a book. "I feel so privileged, being an audience to this-"
"Shut up, Ren," the other two said simultaneously.
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#34. Besides that, she's a fine young lady."
"I'll be sure to remind her of that next time she starts yelling at us.
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#35. You're a zombie. If you're not missing body parts, you're doing it wrong!
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#36. Probably the easiest way to explain [the situation] is to simply say that your proteins refuse to bend [to the zombie protein's command].
'My mother was right,' Nora muttered. 'Even my genes are stubborn.
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#37. Keep this in mind, though: one false move and the teddy gets it!
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#38. Trying, trying, always trying. Trying was my life. I was guaranteed nothing.
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#39. Never again would I let that foul woman trick me into a carriage.
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#40. If you go off on her, you'd better record it, you know. Video, not just audio. Or it didn't happen as far as I'm concerned.
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#41. No, not really. But ... " Okay, I couldn't help but gloat a little. "She likes me."
Samedi didn't even look at me. "Well of course, you've had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.
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#42. I could wear color again now. I could dance again, sit in the front row of church again, visit friends again, all with the approval of Those Who Supposedly Knew Better.
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#43. I felt like crawling off and finding a way to kick myself in the rear. One twist of the leg, might not be too hard.
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#44. We adhere to the principle 'what they don't know won't hurt them.
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#45. That would have been the end of it, book Z in the series, nothing left to do but mourn, or curse her into the afterlife.
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#46. Nora, I just don't want you to become so obsessed with the present that you can't see the future.
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#47. I was a moron-a complete moron. A loser of the highest caliber.
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#48. I took a moment to savor the sensation of impending disastor before telling it to get lost.
"Things are pretty messed up right about now," I began. "What started as a weird phenomenon, something rare, is quickly building into what we might affectionately call 'the Apocalypse.
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#49. Stay away from us!" Michael ordered. He was looking at Nora in horror, as if he couldn't believe what she was saying.
"No one's trying to get near you," Chas snorted. "I don't do living guys. Call me prejudiced.
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#50. If I never see you again, I shall die happy.
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#51. Once more Isambard looked completely terrified. Twice in one night! This was going to be a diary entry for the ages.
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#52. I hope there are zombie sharks in there and they bite you and you die!
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#53. At the end Nora swayed in my arms to something slow and very old, after being convinced that, yes, this is how we slow-dance behind Punk lines, and no, I'm not telling you that just so I can hold you.
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#54. You get the back of a truck or a blind date with a bullet.
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#55. Bram was staring at me in dibelief, as if I were trying to persuade him that his entire existencce as a dead man was simply an incredibly realistic dream.
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#56. Stop it!" Chas shrieked, stomping her foot. "I will not have my boyfriend fighting if it's not over me! Stop it!"
"Let's say it's over you!" Tom grunted as he and Coalhouse wrestled with one another. "If he thinks he's gonna finally get a girl, he might grow balls enough to beat me!
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#57. I really sucked at this whole "I am very attracted to you and would like to demonstrate this to you via attention and creative uses of my disposable income" thing.
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#58. I ran this through my "girl talk" translator and said, "I could eat him, if either of you'd like. Seems like it might be the easiest thing to do."
-Bram to Nora & Pamela
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#59. I know I won't be there for every part of your life, but I'd like you to be there for every part of mine. I do.
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#60. She tried to compose herself then, with several deep breaths. I gave her as long as she needed, all the while mentally designing my tombstone. R.I.P, Captain Abraham R. Griswold. He was completely useless and made girls cry.
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#61. I want him to explain a few things to me, before I beat the prion-whatevers out of him.
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#62. You act like they're especially unholy or something.Are you trying to tell me that in the final showdown between evil and good, the weapons of choice will be guns and..cats?
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#63. Seriously,let me talk to her when she wakes up. Girl-to-girl."
"No offense, Chas, but you'd scare the crap out of her."
"Want to say that to my face, Coalhouse?"
"What's left of it.
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#64. Care to apologize to the lady scumbag?" Bram asked angrily.
"Shut up, deadmeat. Turn on the screen
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#65. When either one of us gets an order from Wolfe that isn't mind-bleedingly stupid there will be no way you will miss it, as we will both be leaping up and down and screaming uncontrollably, like adolescent monkeys, in our shock.
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#66. You know, that bishop strategy you often use is incredibly devious, and I was just about to try a new way to block it before we were so rudely interrupted by the end of the world.
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#67. We just had to keep going and hope that whoever was in charge up top got his act together or started receiving pro-zombie messages from a higher power-living or divine.It really didn't matter at this point.
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#68. You killed me! That's not something you can ever apologize for!"
"Well,then,I'm not sorry."
"You son of a-"
"Hey, you leave her out of this.
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#69. Oh, goody," Chas whispered. "I hate going to the doctor. I'd rather be back underground in the water playing Ophelia.
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#70. If my heart had feet, it would have been up the staircase before the rest of me.
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#71. What about mold," Tom reminded her. "Fuzziness on a girl is never attractive.
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#72. I love you, Nora. I will think you beautiful when I have no eyes left to see. I will remember your voice when my ears go. You can't hold on to me forever, but I will hold on to you until I am nothing but dirt.
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#73. I'm her boyfriend. She really only have to listen to what I say."
She moved closer to him. "I am gonna kill you today, Tom. I can smell it on the air."
"Really?" he asked. "I would've thought the cigs'd taken care of your sense of smell by now.
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#74. I was going to have to kill him. It was a crying shame, but I was going to have to. It was a matter of principle.
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#75. I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.
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#76. I decided that my initial survival strategy would involve declaring my complete ignorance of what was going on. This would not,naturally, be terribly hard to do.
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#77. I wondered if there was a crazy person's license you had to apply for, some seminar you had to attend, or if you could just walk out of the house one day and get started.
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#78. As he puts it, he was reborn in a coal chute, so he can't look down on anyone now.
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#79. All of our lives suck right now, okay? You might think yours is an extra special sparkly rainbow unicorn fart type of suck, but it's not. Just get on with it!
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#80. Did you really ever think of me when you were kidnapped? Because I look at all the things you went through, and my first instinct is to shield you from my problems - but sometimes you act like nothing happened to you at all.
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#81. Dead folks use plastic! When in doubt, throw it out! Please use the bathroom appointed for your gender and mortality!
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#82. Those were the most tortuous two months of my short and uninteresting life.
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#83. I want to go home," she whispered to me. "Forget that last speech, I want to go home.
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#84. Dick Elpinoy and I didn't get along. He was too hoity-toity for my tastes; I didn't follow rules well enough for his. But now we were united in villainy. Or something.
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#85. Merry Christmas, Medication for all!
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#86. See, they say it's 'survival of the fittest', but you and I really know that it's 'survival of the most heavily armed
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#87. Pam," Issy attempted, voice high with fear. "I can tell you, from this side of the fence..you really need to calm down."
"I will shoot you in the face if you say one more word to me," I fumed.
"So noted."
"I am so glad that I am an only child," Coalhouse remarked quietly.
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#88. Ready to meet my best friend, then?"
I clipped my vest together in front and smiled tightly. "Should I bring a bottle of wine? Any taboo topics? Politics, life after death?"
"Yeah, just stay away from that one entirely.
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