Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That’s the way it is for everyone.

Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

What happened?” she breathed, staring at me. “I got hit in the face with a pie,” I said. Mags stopped, blinking. “You got...hit in the face with a pie,” she repeated. “I...what? I’m sorry, but I’ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human.” “It was a really evil pie,” I said.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.