How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea
Mira Grant
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.”
“There was one thing no one considered, however: Australia was populated by Australians. While the rest of us were trying to adapt to a world that suddenly seemed bent on eradicating the human race, the Australians had been dealing with a hostile environment for centuries. They looked upon our zombie apocalypse, and they were not impressed.”
“If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world’s population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.”
“Please do not lick anything past this point.”
“No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.”
“Science is a powerful force, but it will never be stronger than mankind’s capacity to be afraid of what we do not yet fully understand.”
“Does everyone from England go to sleep the minute you load them into a car, or is that something that’s uniquely you?”
“You bury your lede in a hail of bullets, and no one will care enough to dig it up.”
“While the rest of us were trying to adapt to a world that suddenly seemed bent on eradicating the human race, the Australians had been dealing with a hostile environment for centuries. They looked upon our zombie apocalypse, and they were not impressed.”
“The nursery reminded me uncomfortably of a pre-Rising thriller that Maggie had forced me to watch while we were staying at the Agora in Seattle: a dinosaur adventure called Jurassic Park, in which scientists with more brains than sense cloned enormous prehistoric predators just because they could. Maybe that’s an oversimplification of the movie’s premise, but really, who looks at a three-ton thunder lizard and thinks, “I should get one of those for the back garden”?”
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Book Keywords:
journalism, apocalypse, spiders, humor, zombies, australia, instructional
