Best Paramilitary Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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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.”

“We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.”

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“This place is Hell’s waiting room.”

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“There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.”

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“‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.”

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“You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.”

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“The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.”

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“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.”

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“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.”

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“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.”

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“This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.”

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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.”

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“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.”

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“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”

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“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.”

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“I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.”

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“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?”

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“I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.”

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“If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.”

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“She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.”

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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.”

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“Drive. He’s already dead.”

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“Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.”

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“‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’”

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“Dude, don’t die out here.”

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“‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.”

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“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.”

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“For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.”

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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.”

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“I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.”

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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.”

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“I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.”

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“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.”

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“A riverless silence made the air heavy.”

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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.”

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“Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.”

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“His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.”

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“I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.”

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“I’m not a bad person.”

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“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”

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“Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.”

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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.”

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“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”

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