Isaac Marion Quotes - Page 3

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• What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it was like. A smoldering dread that never really caught fire till there wasn't much left to burn. Each sequential step surprised us. Then one day we woke up, and everything was gone.

  Isaac Marion

  Memories, Fire, One Day

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Our World

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

  Isaac Marion

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

  Isaac Marion

  Moving, Waiting, World

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.

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  Moon, Islands, Space

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• Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

  Isaac Marion

  Becoming One, Body, Written

  "Q&A with Warm Bodies author Isaac Marion". Interview with Tim Hall, blog.seattlepi.com. January 29, 2013.

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• I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

  Isaac Marion

  People, Wish, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.” Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—

  Isaac Marion

  Home, Remember You, Remembers You

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

  Isaac Marion

  World, End Of The World, Ends

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• Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.

  Isaac Marion

  Beautiful, Humanity, Doe

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

  Isaac Marion

  Stupid, Cynical, Apathy

  Isaac Marion (2011). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I'm not going to say good-bye. And if these staggering refugees want to help, if they think they see something bigger here than a boy chasing a girl, then they can help, and we'll see what happens when we say yes while the rigor mortis world screams no.

  Isaac Marion

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

  Isaac Marion

  Coward, Moments

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

  Isaac Marion

  Passing On, Population, Who We Are

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

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  What Matters, Want, Next

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?

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  Choices, Happened, Known

  Isaac Marion (2015). “The New Hunger: A Warm Bodies Novella”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• He is spent. His mind is mercury again, its brief surge of humanity melting into an oily residue on its surface, and he no longer understands the feelings he felt in that strange moment on the overpass. But he did feel them. They did happen. They rest on the murky seabed of his mind, buried under sand and silt and miles of grey waves. Patient seeds waiting for light.

  Isaac Marion

  Light, Waiting, Feelings

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.

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  Believe, Sleep, Desire

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.

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  Eerie, Civilization, Cities

  Isaac Marion (2013). “The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies”, p.22, Random House

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• The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.

  Isaac Marion

  Book, Thinking, Sides

  "Wordstock Interview: Isaac Marion". Interview with Jonathan H. Liu, www.wired.com. October 13, 2011.

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• You might say that death has relaxed me.

  Isaac Marion

  Might, Relaxed

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• Here we are on the road. We must be going somewhere.

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  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

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  Growing Up, Remembers Everything, Forever

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

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  Trying, World

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

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  Long, People, Gone

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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