28 Days Later... Quotes

[Mark tells Jim a joke after him and Selena save Jim's life]
Mark: A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, 'Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there.' And the man says, 'No. It's not a lion. It's a giraffe.'
Mark: [Jim remains silent as Mark takes his mask off,

talking to Selena] Completely humorless. You two should get on, like a house on fire.

[Jim starts yelling to Frank at how bad of an idea it is to go through the underground tunnel]
Jim: Oh, no. No, see-see, this is a really shit idea. You know why? Because it's really obviously a shit idea. So, we're just gonna drive in the tunnel full of fuckin' smashed cars and broken glass. It's really fuckin' obviously a shit idea!
Frank: [Frank

sees a wreckage of cars, screaming] Hold on!

[Selena guesses what Jim was just thinking]
Jim: So, know what I was thinking?
Selena: You were thinking that you'll never hear another piece of original music ever again. You'll never read another book that hasn't already been written... or see a film that hasn't already been shot.
Jim: Um, that's what you were thinking.

[Selena tells Jim how the infected began to spread]
Selena: It started as rioting. And right from the beginning you knew this was different, because it was happening in small villages, market towns, and then, it wasn't on the TV any more. It was in the street outside. It was coming through your windows. It was a virus, an infection. You didn't need a doctor to tell you

that. It was the blood. There was something in the blood. By the time they tried to evacuate the cities, it was already too late. The infection was everywhere. The Army blockades were overrun and that's when the exodus started. The day before the TV and radio stopped broadcasting there were reports of infection in Paris and New York. We didn't hear anything more after that.

[Major Henry West tells Jim why he set the radio broadcasting]
Major Henry West: I promised them women.
Jim: What?
Major Henry West: Eight days ago I found Jones with his gun in his mouth. He said he was going to kill himself, because there was no future. What could I say to him? We fight off the infected or we wait until they

starve to death, and then what? What do nine men do, except wait to die themselves? I moved us from the blockade. I set the radio broadcasting, and I promised them women... because women mean a future.

[Major Henry West tells everyone around the dinner table his theory on the infection]
Major Henry West: This is what I've seen in the four weeks since infection. People killing people, which is much what I saw in the four weeks before infection, and the four weeks before that, and before that, and as far back as I care to remember. People killing people, which to my mind,

puts us in a state of normality right now.

[Jim tries to stop Selena from crying after the death of Frank]
Jim: Hey, don't do that. Look, Hannah is what Frank says she is, okay? She's tough, and she's strong, and she'll cope, just like I'll cope, and just like you'll cope.
Selena: I don't want her to have to fuckin' cope. I want her to be okay. When Hannah had her dad, it was okay. It was

okay for them, and it was okay for us. Now, it's all just fucked.
[Jim kisses Selena on the mouth as she kisses him back]

[Jim asks Selena and Mark about the government]
Jim: What about the government?
Selena: There's no government.
Jim: Of course there's a government! There's always a government. They're in, a bunker or a plane.
Mark: No, there's no government. No police. No Army. No TV. No radio. No electricity. You're

the first uninfected person we've seen in six days.