Warm Bodies (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• R: Zombie. More cognizant, more verbal and sensitive than the typical Dead.
• Julie Cabernet: Perry's long time girlfriend and Nora's best friend. R protects her.
• Nora Greene: A friend of Julie's. Resident at Citi Stadium refuge. Tall, brown skin and curly hair.
• Perry Kelvin: Julie's ex-boyfriend. Team leader at Citi Stadium refuge.
• M: The closest thing R has to a friend. Like R, he is more cognizant and verbal than most zombies. M has a dark and sarcastic sense of humor, another uncharacteristic trait among the Dead. He is over six feet tall and quite large. He helps R get to Julie.
• General Grigio: Julie's father, leader figure inside Citi Stadium refuge
• Colonel Rosso: Leader at the Citi Stadium refuge. Like a grandpa to Julie. His nick-name is Rossy.
• Nora: Julie's best friend.
• Bonies: Zombies whose flesh has fallen away leaving little more than bone.
• The Mercedes: This car is not one to be a real character, more of one that always shows up for R and Julie. This car is a treasured friend to R and Julie.
• Trina: Add a description of this character.
• Ted
• Berg
• Marie Claire
• Frank Sinatra
• Pear
• John Lennon
• R.
• Mrs Grau
• Mr Grigio
• Archie

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• “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

• “Is it possible to have a midlife crisis if you have no idea how old you are?”

  R

• “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

• “I've never liked that differentiation. She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.”

  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

• “You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”

  Julie

• “What's wrong with people? Were they born with parts missing or did it all fall out somewhere along the way?”

  Julie

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

  Nora

• “I don't want to hear music. I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.”

  Perry

• “What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.”

  Nora

• “In my short life I made so many choices because I thought they were required, but my dad was right: there's no rule book for the world. It's in our heads, our collective human hive-mind. If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.”

  Perry

• “Not so easy, Mr. Lennon. Even if you try.”

  R

• “What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.”

  R

• “We smile, because this is how we save the world.”

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

  Perry

• “"Feel empty. Feel... Dead." He nods"marr... iage"”

  R and M

• “No praise, no blame, just so.”

  R

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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: Abandoned airport where hundreds of the Dead live, including R.
• Citi Stadium: Refuge for the Living.

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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.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by The New Hunger.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Isaac Marion (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• 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. The descriptions are crass and the act lacks any emotional attachment.

Subjects edit see section history

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

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Warm Bodies (IMDb): 2013 movie