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The Drowning Game QUOTES

The Drowning Game QUOTES

1 " He's a moron being an asshole. You don't shoot people for being assholes, or the human race would be extinct. "

― L.S. Hawker , The Drowning Game

2 " I’m going to look so emo,” Dekker said. I actually started to wonder if they were keeping me here on purpose, that they’d called the cops themselves to get the Crimestopper money. But remembering the car collection in the barn and looking around this beautiful house, I realized my faulty "

― L.S. Hawker , The Drowning Game

3 " next happened so fast I barely had time to process it. Petty brought her arm up whip-smart, instantly and "

― L.S. Hawker , The Drowning Game

4 " I shook my head, dazzled by the gleaming lime-green glass tile of the countertop, the matching walls and multicolored abstract painting across from the toilet. The light and color were so radiant, I could almost taste citrus. “Is there a lock on the bedroom door?” I asked. "

― L.S. Hawker , The Drowning Game

5 " DEKKER I COULD NOT believe what I was hearing. Surely Randy was bluffing. The microchips for pets that I’d heard about were just for identification, they didn’t have GPS capabilities—that was science fiction stuff. Petty stripped off her hoodie and stared at her own shoulder, her mouth open, horrified, as if it were covered in boils or slugs. “You’re full of shit,” I said to Randy, and my voice was shaky and hoarse. “The technology "

― L.S. Hawker , The Drowning Game

6 " PETTY I SLOWED TO a limp at the crest of the hill, above the tailings pond. There sat the Taurus, parked and running, throwing billowy fumes into the air. I couldn’t swallow, my throat was so dry. I had to recover, and quick. My eyeballs felt as if they’d shrunk and my field of vision was narrowed almost to the point of blindness. I rubbed them and gasped for air, trying to determine if Mitch or Dekker were in the car. It appeared to be empty. Where were they? At the bottom of the slope, by the edge of the water, I saw two mounds of black, like two bears foraging slowly along the rocky ground. Was I hallucinating? But then I saw it was Mitch, dragging Dekker’s motionless body toward the deep lake. "

― L.S. Hawker , The Drowning Game

7 " There were cigarette butts all over the ground, so many of them it almost looked decorative. “Maybe "

― L.S. Hawker , The Drowning Game