A biography for Steven Ramirezhasn’t been written yet.
“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”
“We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.”
“Drive. He’s already dead.”
“The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.”
“I recalled something I’d read a long time ago about Satan. When he appeared, it wouldn’t be as a demon but as an ordinary-looking guy with a convincing message of peace.”
“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.”
“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.”
“Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.”
“If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.”
“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.”
“I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.”
“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.”
“His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.”
“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”
“When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.”
“I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.”
“For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.”
“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.”
“There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.”
“This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.”