You can’t get the blood out.
~ Steven Ramirez
We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.
~ Steven Ramirez
What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.
~ Steven Ramirez
I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.
~ Steven Ramirez
This place is Hell’s waiting room.
~ Steven Ramirez
There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.
~ Steven Ramirez
People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.
~ Steven Ramirez
I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.
~ Steven Ramirez
If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.
~ Steven Ramirez
I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.
~ Steven Ramirez
‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.
~ Steven Ramirez
You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.
~ Steven Ramirez
She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.
~ Steven Ramirez
Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.
~ Steven Ramirez
I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.
~ Steven Ramirez
There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.
~ Steven Ramirez
She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.
~ Steven Ramirez
The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.
~ Steven Ramirez
The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.
~ Steven Ramirez
This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.
~ Steven Ramirez
Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.
~ Steven Ramirez
She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.
~ Steven Ramirez
Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.
~ Steven Ramirez
When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.
~ Steven Ramirez
It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.
~ Steven Ramirez
I’m not a bad person.
~ Steven Ramirez
I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.
~ Steven Ramirez
I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.
~ Steven Ramirez
Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?
~ Steven Ramirez
Drive. He’s already dead.
~ Steven Ramirez
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
Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.
~ Steven Ramirez
‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’
~ Steven Ramirez
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
I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.
~ Steven Ramirez
For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.
~ Steven Ramirez
‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.
~ Steven Ramirez
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