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So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

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Stupid, Attention, Pay

Seth Grahame-Smith (2007). “How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills”, p.11, Quirk Books

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‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?

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Cities, Desire, Comfort

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Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.

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Memories, Father, Night

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I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

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Thinking, Hard Times, Evil

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All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

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Christian, Husband, Finals

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.114, Chronicle Books

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An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

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Fighting, Thorough Knowledge, Europe

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.45, Chronicle Books

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No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

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Daughter, Mother, Home

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.145, Quirk Books

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This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

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Idle Chatter, Tides, Vengeance

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.262, Chronicle Books

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On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

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Mouths, Way, Dignity

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.231, Quirk Books

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My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.

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Enemy, Lame, Majesty

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.252, Quirk Books

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Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

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Skirts, Modesty, Kicks

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.33, Quirk Books

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Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger of falling in love, and were it not for his considerable skill in the deadly arts, that he should be in danger of being bested by hers--for never had he seen a lady more gifted in the ways of vanquishing the undead.

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Falling In Love, Art, Skills

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.49, Quirk Books

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I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

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Dream, Art, Mind

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.12, Quirk Books

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The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

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Daughter, Alive, Married

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Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

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Behinds

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.149, Quirk Books

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Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

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Blood, People, Splits

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I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

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Loneliness, Twenties, Littles

Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.59, Quirk Books

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We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

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Vampire, Library, Dissecting

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I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

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Mean, Attention, Demand

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.109, Chronicle Books

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But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

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Ambition, Noble, Decided

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Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

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Opportunity, Judging, Wish

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Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!

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Falling In Love, Fool, Faults

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My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.

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War, Men, Blood

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And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

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Taken, Cat, Mice

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I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

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Taken, Rabbits, Foxes

Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter”, p.63, Hachette UK

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