Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show."
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"I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"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, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"‘Eighth one this week,’ he said."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"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, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"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, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’"
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"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, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"Drive. He’s already dead."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?"
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"A riverless silence made the air heavy."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
"It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right."
Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead
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