I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corp…

Isaac Marion
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be. ✨ Isaac Marion (2012). Warm Bodies: A Novel, p.208, Simon and Schuster
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Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took. ✨ Isaac Marion (2016). Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be. ✨ Isaac Marion (2012). Warm Bodies: A Novel, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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