Warm Bodies (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• R: A zombie who was a young man, probably a professional, but as a zombie has no memories or identity.
• Julie Grigio: the girlfriend of one of R's victims, a girl R has chosen to protect
• Nora: A human friend of Julie's.
• Perry Kelvin: Julies ex-boyfriend and the brain R eats before becoming attached to Julie.
• M: A large zombie, friends with R, sort of a horn dog, more cognizant and verbal than most zombies. M has a dark and sarcastic sense of humour.

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• “There's no benchmark for how life's 'supposed' to happen, Perry. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is *now*, and it's up to you how you respond to it. (page 113)”

  Perry's father

• “My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.”

  R

• “Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for the exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

  R

• “I want to scrub the moss off the space shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonize 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.”

  R

• “What does it mean that my past is a fog but my present is brilliant, bursting with sound and color?”

  R

• “Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”

  Julie

• “When you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.”

  Nora

• “I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bite somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts.”

  R

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• I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning in ellipses.

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• Once you’ve arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.

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• “There’s no benchmark for how life’s ‘supposed’ to happen, Perry. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it’s up to you how you respond to it.”

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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.

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• I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

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• I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys.

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• “All the shitty stuff people do to themselves… it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.”

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• There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can’t cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

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• “What I’m trying to say is, it’s a shitty world and shit happens, but we don’t have to bathe in shit.

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• Quod tu es, ego fui, quod ego sum, tu eris. What you are, I once was. What I am, you will become.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Airport: The Airport is where the zombies are living
• Citi Stadium: This is where the humans that have survived live

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Glossary edit see section history

• Boneys: Zombies that are so old they are nothing but bone held together by tendons.
• Carbtein: A type of food that humans can survive on for long periods of time.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Isaac Marion (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

The "F" word gets used, and there are references to sex. For example, zombies mimic sexual acts like a rote muscle memory.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Literature & Fiction