Lori: Memories are what keep me going now. Memories of what life used to be. And I... I've got a deep well to draw on. I still remember joy. But I think Carl's well is already running dry. And this baby... The baby won't have any good memories at all, only fear and pain.
Dale: You can't think like that. We can still find joy and we can still take strength from each other.
Lori: Do you really think this baby has a chance, that it could grow up and live a happy life? [with tears in her eyes] Look me in the eye and tell me that my baby will grow up to be your age and die happy. Tell me. Tell me you believe that.
[Later, when she talks to Rick]
Lori: We can't protect the son we already have.
Rick: So thisnote is the solution?
Lori: Rick, I threw them up. I screwed up. I don't know how we do this.
Rick: We can make it work.
Lori: How?? Tell me how!
Rick: We'll figure it out! Shouldn't we try to figure it out? You threw up the pills. You want this baby. I know you do.
Lori: [in tears] Not like this. Not giving birth in a ditch. Not when its life will hang by a thread from the second it's born. Not when every cry will put it, and Carl, and everyone we care about, in danger. That's not right.
Rick: Not even giving it a chance isn't right either.
Dale: You can't think like that. We can still find joy and we can still take strength from each other.
Lori: Do you really think this baby has a chance, that it could grow up and live a happy life? [with tears in her eyes] Look me in the eye and tell me that my baby will grow up to be your age and die happy. Tell me. Tell me you believe that.
[Later, when she talks to Rick]
Lori: We can't protect the son we already have.
Rick: So thisnote is the solution?
Lori: Rick, I threw them up. I screwed up. I don't know how we do this.
Rick: We can make it work.
Lori: How?? Tell me how!
Rick: We'll figure it out! Shouldn't we try to figure it out? You threw up the pills. You want this baby. I know you do.
Lori: [in tears] Not like this. Not giving birth in a ditch. Not when its life will hang by a thread from the second it's born. Not when every cry will put it, and Carl, and everyone we care about, in danger. That's not right.
Rick: Not even giving it a chance isn't right either.
—serious discussions from The Walking Dead S02 E06 "Secrets"
"C'mon, you know these guys were born after the outbreak. Never learned how to argue, they just start swinging. Fuckin' nineteen-year-old pieces of shit!"
—Tess, The Last of Us (2023)
Alexandra: How could you not remember something like that? It was beautiful.
Kirsten: I was eight.
Alexandra nodded, unsatisfied and obviously thinking that if she'd seen a lit-up computer screen when she was eight, she'd have remembered it.
—from Station Eleven
Jeremiah: Kids born after the Big Death grow up fast.
—Jeremiah, "Red Kiss"
