Joel Miller Quotes

Ellie Williams (about Tommy): What if you don't find him?

Joel Miller: I will.

Ellie Williams: How do you know?

Joel Miller: I'm persistent.

Ellie Williams: If you don't think there's hope for the world, why bother going on? I mean, you gotta try, right?

Joel Miller: You haven't seen the world, so you don't know. You keep goin' for family. That's about it.

Ellie Williams: I'm not family.

Joel Miller: No... you're cargo. And I made a promise to Tess. And she was like family.

Ellie Williams: Ugh! The f**k is that?

Joel Miller: You don't like coffee?

Ellie Williams: Is that seriously what those Starbucks in the QZ used to sell?

Joel Miller: Well, theirs was a lot fresher than what Bill saved up, but, yeah, this is what they sold.

Ellie Williams: Smells like burnt sh*t.

(Ellie finds adult magazine in Bill's car...)

Ellie Williams: Got somethin' else. It's, uh... light on the reading, but it has some interesting pictures.

Joel Miller: Oh. No, no, no. Put that back. That's not for kids. Ellie.

Ellie Williams: How would he even walk around with that thing?

Joel Miller: Please get rid of it.

Ellie Williams: Hold your horses. I wanna see what all the fuss is about. Why are all these pages stuck together?

Joel Miller: Uhh... the...

Ellie Williams: I'm just f**kin' with ya.

Joel Miller: About a week after Outbreak Day, soldiers... went through the countryside, evacuated the small towns. Told you you were goin' to a QZ, and you were... if there was room. If there wasn't...

Ellie Williams: These people weren't sick?

Joel Miller: No, probably not.

Ellie Williams: Why kill them? Why not just leave 'em be?

Joel Miller: Dead people can't be infected.

Joel Miller: There's stuff up there you shouldn't see.

Ellie Williams: Well, now I have to see.

Joel Miller: I don't want you to. Serious. Ellie!

Ellie Williams: Can it hurt me?

Joel Miller: No.

Ellie Williams: You're too honest, man. Should've said axe murderer.

Ellie Williams: How did it even start? If you have to get bit to be infected, then who bit the first person? Was it a monkey? I bet it was a monkey.

Joel Miller: It wasn't a monkey. I thought you went to school.

Ellie Williams: FEDRA school. They don't teach us how their sh*tty government failed to prevent a pandemic.

Joel Miller: No one knows for sure, but, best guess... Cordyceps mutated. And some of it got into the food supply. Probably a basic ingredient like flour or sugar. There were certain brands of food that were sold everywhere, all across the country, across the world. Bread, cereal... pancake mix. You eat enough of it, it'll get you infected. So the tainted food all hits the store shelves around the same time, Thursday. People bought it, ate some Thursday night or Friday morning. Day goes on... they started to get sick. Afternoon, evening, they got worse. Then they started bitin'. Friday night, September 26, 2003. And by Monday, everything was gone.

Ellie Williams: It makes more sense than monkeys. Thanks.

Ellie Williams: Is there anything bad in here?

Joel Miller: Just you.

Ellie Williams: Ah. Getting funnier.

Ellie Williams: How'd you get that scar on your head? What? Is it something lame? Like you fell down the stairs or something?

Joel Miller: I didn't fall down any stairs.

Ellie Williams: Okay, so what then?

Joel Miller: Someone shot at me and missed.

Ellie Williams: See, that's cool.

Ellie Williams: There's not gonna be anything bad in here?

Joel Miller: Just you.

Ellie Williams: Oh, funny.