If I was going to give it up, I needed to give it all up, to leave myself no way back.
"A zombie is just an undead gentleman with a chip on his shoulder. But to think that we're illiterate, or can't walk faster than one mile an hour . . . it's ridiculous. We're quite articulate. We mind our manners. And we prefer fois gras to brains."
First to achieve substantiality, rising to the surface / like Atlantis reborn, is her core personality,