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Famous Steven Ramirez Quotes
“We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.”
“This place is Hell’s waiting room.”
“There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.”
“‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.”
“You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.”
“The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.”
“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.”
“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.”
“This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.”
“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.”
“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”
“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.”
“I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.”
“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?”
“I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.”
“If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.”
“She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.”
“Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.”
“‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’”
“‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.”
“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.”
“For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.”
“I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.”
“I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.”
“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.”
“A riverless silence made the air heavy.”
“Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.”
“His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.”
“I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.”
“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”
“Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.”
“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”