Contagion Quotes

This place is Hell’s waiting room.

I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.

You can’t get the blood out.

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

Drive. He’s already dead.

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

I’m not a bad person.

It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man, ’ he said.

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.