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“I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.”
“This place is Hell’s waiting room.”
“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.”
“Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.”
“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.”
“I was somewhere between angry and turned-on.”
“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.”
“You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.”
“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.”
“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.”
“Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.”
“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”
“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?”
“‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’”
“‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.”
“You can’t get the blood out.”
“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.”
“She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.”
“‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.”
“She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.”