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You can’t get the blood out.Steven Ramirez
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Greg: Scott, great horde. My realization was that I could never *actually* live a life where I had to be constantly doing things like praising a dude's horde. So that made me feel better about myself.Jesse Andrews
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We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.Steven Ramirez
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What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.Steven Ramirez
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I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.Steven Ramirez
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This place is Hell’s waiting room.Steven Ramirez
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There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.Steven Ramirez
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People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.Steven Ramirez
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I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.Steven Ramirez
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If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.Steven Ramirez
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I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.Steven Ramirez
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‘There’s no time for right or wrong, ’ I said.Steven Ramirez
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You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.Steven Ramirez
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She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.Steven Ramirez
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Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.Steven Ramirez
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I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.Steven Ramirez
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There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.Steven Ramirez
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She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.Steven Ramirez
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The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.Steven Ramirez
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The sound of him drinking was indescribable–like dirty runoff down a storm drain.Steven Ramirez
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This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.Steven Ramirez
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Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man, ’ he said.Steven Ramirez
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She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.Steven Ramirez
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Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.Steven Ramirez
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When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.Steven Ramirez
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It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.Steven Ramirez
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I’m not a bad person.Steven Ramirez
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I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.Steven Ramirez
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I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.Steven Ramirez
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Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?Steven Ramirez
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Drive. He’s already dead.Steven Ramirez
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But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.Steven Ramirez
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Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.Steven Ramirez
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‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’Steven Ramirez
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I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.Steven Ramirez
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I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.Steven Ramirez
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For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.Steven Ramirez
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‘Eighth one this week, ’ he said.Steven Ramirez
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I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.Steven Ramirez
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During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t–how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.Steven Ramirez
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Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.Steven Ramirez
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His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.Steven Ramirez
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A riverless silence made the air heavy.Steven Ramirez
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I don’t know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I’m a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.Unknown
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I didn't ask if he meant his rescue or the deal with Stalker that involved kissing. I couldn't resist pushing, just a little. "So it won't bother you if I find someone else?" His jaw clenched, and I saw the muscle move before he got it under control. "I thought you said you'd fight for me."" And /you/ said it's too late." I offered him a faint smile along with his watch. "So it's a good thing I don't intend to listen to you.Ann Aguirre