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Use your head; cut off theirs.
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Max Brooks (Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead)
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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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Max Brooks (Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead)
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Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.
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Max Brooks (Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead)
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If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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When approaching a prospective human, first ask them what their name is.
* If it replies "Brains," blow its fucking head off.
* If it replies "Brian," ask it again, as you may have encountered a zombie with a speech impediment, or a zombie that was mildly retarded in life.
* Keep in mind that it is entirely possible that you did encounter a human named "Brian.
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Shamus McCarty (The Zombie Survival Guide: How to Live Like a King After the Outbreak)
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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear-all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human "heart" are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity's greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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When fighting for your life, it may simply be too easy to flip the switch to “rock ’n’ roll,” no matter how wasteful and useless this might be.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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History has proven that a well-trained individual, with nothing but a rock, has a better chance of survival than a novice with the latest technological marvel.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Okay. You’re stranded in a deserted train station during the zombie apocalypse. Quick, which book do you have with you?” “Hopefully The Zombie Survival Guide.
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Aly Martinez (Fighting Shadows (On the Ropes, #2))
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During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns
such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the
emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of
zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This
obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an
executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.
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Max Brooks (Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead)
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*At the behest of the filmmakers and/or their estates, the titles of those movies based on true-life stories have been omitted.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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How could those in power, especially in such a modern, enlightened age as ours, ignore the spread of a deadly disease until it reached plague proportions?
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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As stated before, in Western—particularly American—culture, there is the myth of the individual superbeing. One man or woman, well-armed and highly skilled, with nerves of steel, can conquer the world. In truth, anyone believing this should simply strip naked, holler for the undead, then lay down on a silver platter.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear—all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not require food,ammunition, or medical attention. It will not succumb to panic, desertion, or out-and-out mutiny. Like the virus that gave it life, this undead force will continue to grow, spreading across the body of this planet until there is nothing left to devour. Where would you go? What would you do?
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Humans who believe they have outrun their undead pursuers might do well to remember the story of the tortoise and the hare, adding, of course, that in this instance the hare stands a good chance of being eaten alive.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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He comes from the grave, his body a home of worms and filth. No life in his eyes, no warmth of his skin, no beating of his breast. His soul, as empty and dark as the night sky. He laughs at the blade, spits at the arrow, for they will not harm his flesh. For eternity, he will walk the earth, smelling the sweet blood of the living, feasting upon the bones of the damned. Beware, for he is the living dead. —OBSCURE HINDU TEXT, CIRCA 1000 B.C.E.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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They may be the water, but you are the boulder that guides their path, and in return they too, shape you.
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James Schannep (Pathogens: Who Will Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? (Click Your Poison, #4))
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Since zombies are slower than humans, your family should be able to calmly turn around and walk away from danger. That’s the theory. In practice, executing even the simplest maneuver with kids is virtually impossible. They naturally do the opposite of what you tell them, unless they anticipated you’d use reverse psychology. Then they do the opposite of whatever you said. If you understood those sentences at all, you’ve already spent too much time with your children.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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Marriage has a built-in system of checks and balances. The checks aren’t so much like Congress checking a president as they are like one hockey player checking another into a wall. It hurts, but it’s also a wakeup call—assuming you ever wake up.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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Do get a copy of this book you can keep. If you use it right, it’ll be covered in dirt and blood splatter by the end. The last thing you need in the apocalypse is a hefty library fine. Don’t tell your friends about this book. You need every advantage you can get over the competition. It’s a person-eat-person world out there.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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In America, they have this thing called a story cycle. When they're at war, they start doing fantasy and war-style entertainment. When fantasy gets big, they go through a recession, and horror starts gaining popularity. When horror gets popular, mystery starts gaining popularity. Then when mystery reaches its peak, science fiction starts gaining popularity. Then things get rough again, and we go back to Fantasy". This quote was taken from an interview from The Myth of Cthulhu: Dark Navigation.
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Freddy Sakazaki (Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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The TSA gets all upset about things like razor blades and pocket knives. They're narrow minded that way.
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Rex Cutty (Zombie Apocalypse: A Survival Guide)
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Parents have many weapons at their disposal, but only one has the power to destroy anyone or anything in its path. A solider has a rifle. A Jedi has a light saber. A parent has an umbrella stroller.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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The undead are immune to all burns, both physical and emotional.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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It's easy to predict human actions once you assume everyone is a jerk.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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They may be the water, but you are the boulder that guides their path, and in return they too, shape you. Life made smooth by decades of students flowing through. Finally,
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James Schannep (Pathogens: Who Will Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? (Click Your Poison, #4))
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The chances of a zombie outbreak beginning in a daycare are alarmingly high. Toddlers are walking Petri dishes. Every major illness starts with them. They are so contagious that NATO’s current germ warfare policy is to parachute preschoolers into enemy countries. A single runny nose could wipe out North Korea. Little kids have undeveloped immune systems and love to eat food off the floor. To diseases, they’re Disneyland. Put twelve toddlers in a room together and you’ll have the deadliest germ laboratory in the world. Everyone knows the bubonic plague started in a daycare. I don’t see why the first case of zombieism will be any different.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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Many may not know this, but beer is a weapon of choice not only against werewolves, but also zombies, banshees, ghouls, and the chastity belts of wood nymphs.” --“The Well-Armed Vampire,” Dexter Bloodgood’s Survival Guide for Modern Vampries, 19th Edition
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Allison M. Dickson (Scarlet Letters: The Tale of the Vampire Mailman)
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knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Don't wait for children's toys to fall into your garden Part of eliminating compassion is stopping other people from trying to pull it out of you. A guaranteed way to do this is to follow this exercise. Many children will undoubtedly be playing games near your home, and perhaps a Frisbee or a ball will land in your garden. The typical grumpy old man won't give it back. You must go one step further. On these same strolls where you locate charity workers, locate children playing. Playgrounds are a good place to start, but you want to be careful you don't look like a pedophile. Remember, you love nothing, children included. When you see children playing a game quickly run up and pop their ball or hurl their Frisbee into a nearby tree. Word will spread and no one will try to drag you down to their pathetically weak levels with feelings and caring. Caring is for the dead. If they had cared less they wouldn't be zombies now. So remember to pop balls, tear kites, hide Frisbees, kick sandcastles, and decapitate teddy bears. Spitting into open lunch boxes will take you over the top but isn't necessary.
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Laurence Sutton (Ultimate Survival Guide : Zombie Apocalypse)
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Explosive Pandemic-type zombies mostly spread the contagion through wounding or biting humans, and in that way, the increase their numbers. Because they multiply so quickly and explosively, they can destroy all human civilization in a very short time. For this reason, will refer to them as Explosive Pandemic-type zombies.
The person responsible for Explosive Pandemic-type zombies is none other than George A Romero, who created them in 1968 Night of the Living Dead.
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Freddy Sakazaki (Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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She acts all scary, but she's been unusually nice to us, so... I know! She's the Tsundere-type zombie, amiright?!
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Freddy Sakazaki (Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
Laurence Sutton (Ultimate Survival Guide : Zombie Apocalypse)
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Kate realized all these girls were strange in their own way. Maybe everyone was.
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Alex Flinn (Survival Guide. 30 Survival Tactics To Survive Anything: how to survive the end of the world as we know it, survival shelter, survival zombie, wilderness, ... survival guide, Survival handbook, Book 2))
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When I slipped on that wedding ring, I got more than a partner for life; I gained a standing veto to all my best schemes. Marriage has a built-in system of checks and balances. The checks aren’t so much like Congress checking a president as they are like one hockey player checking another into a wall. It hurts, but it’s also a wakeup call—assuming you ever wake up.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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There will be bills to pay right up to the second civilization collapses and money loses all value forever. Then millions of greenbacks won’t be worth as much as a single serving of beans. That’s why you should toss a few extra cans in your cart every time you go to the grocery store. Someday you’ll be the richest person in the world.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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After all, fans may come to your story for the zombies, but they stay for the people. That's the reason The Walking Dead TV series has lasted as many seasons as it has. The zombies are great, you can't do it without them, but it's the human characters―their relationships and drama―that make it successful
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Jackson Dean Chase (Writing Apocalypse and Survival: A Masterclass in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Zombie Horror (The Ultimate Author's Guide Book 4))
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In The Walking Dead, Shane is a prime example of a traitor.
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Jackson Dean Chase (Writing Apocalypse and Survival: A Masterclass in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Zombie Horror (The Ultimate Author's Guide Book 4))
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Whatever reason you have for why flesh-eating zombies exist, keep it to yourself. Your readers don’t care, and more than that, they don’t want to know. I’m
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Jackson Dean Chase (Writing Apocalypse and Survival: A Masterclass in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Zombie Horror (The Ultimate Author's Guide Book 4))
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technically, any wearable or implanted electronic or prosthetic device is cybernetic; this includes pacemakers, hearing aids, and contact lenses.
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Jackson Dean Chase (Writing Apocalypse and Survival: A Masterclass in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Zombie Horror (The Ultimate Author's Guide Book 4))
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As best selling author Mickey Spillane put it, “Your first line sells the book. Your last line sells the next book.
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Jackson Dean Chase (Writing Apocalypse and Survival: A Masterclass in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Zombie Horror (The Ultimate Author's Guide Book 4))
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Your power brings us to birth, Your providence guides our lives, and by Your command we return to dust. Lord, those who die still live in Your presence, their lives change but do not end. I pray in hope for my family, relatives and friends, and for all the dead known to you alone. In company with Christ, Who died and now lives, may they rejoice in Your kingdom, where all our tears are wiped away. Unite us together again in one family, to sing Your praise forever and ever.
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Shawn Chesser (Gone (Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse #13))
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zombies could destroy everything and nobody would notice the difference. I’m looking at you, New Jersey.
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James Breakwell (Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)
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You have to start with a bang, pull back, then hit them again with the last line of your first paragraph. BAM! No escape. They're hooked. They have to keep reading.
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Jackson Dean Chase (Writing Apocalypse and Survival: A Masterclass in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction and Zombie Horror (The Ultimate Author's Guide Book 4))
Mr. Miner (Minecraft For Beginners: The Illustrated Ultimate Guide to Learn All the Tips and Tricks for Crafting, Surviving, Exploring and Building Incredible Structures Like a Pro. (2021 Unofficial Guide))
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rank warehouses among your most attractive hideouts.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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(First tip: do not own or befriend cats, they only form unnecessary emotional bonds and, unlike dogs, will not come to your aid at a crucial moment. They may also join forces with the zombies at the first opportunity to take revenge on you for your giving them a name like Mittens).
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Laurence Sutton (Ultimate Survival Guide : Zombie Apocalypse)
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Zombies, ghouls—no matter what their label—these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.
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Max Brooks (The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead)
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Listen and listen good Log Lady. This wood fetish might be cute in Twin Peaks, but it sure ain't gonna cut it here.
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Freddy Sakazaki (Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse)