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1 " Pain today, pussy tomorrow. "
― Bobby Adair , Zero Day (Slow Burn, #1)
2 " So fuck Dan. Fuck the police. Fuck the doctors. Fuck Jerome. And fuck the infected! "
3 " I went into the living room and looked down at my mother’s torn body and shook my head. It was surreal. I guess some people in that situation would have crumbled, some would have cried, but I’d emotionally disconnected from life a long time ago. For that, I had to thank the skeletal bitch on the floor, with her greedy rodent soul and her short-tempered ape-mate in the kitchen. If anything, her death was a belated answer to old prayers, with a bit of an unexpected mess. "
4 " He was dead. I was fixated on the horrid bite wound on my left forearm. For a long time I watched, hypnotized, as the blood oozed and dripped. "
5 " The hot, stagnant air, only marginally cooler without the sun’s heat, draped us in its sticky blanket. "
6 " It’s okay,” he said again. “I’m like you.” “What? What do mean, like me?” I asked. “Slow burn,” he responded. "
7 " I’ll tell them that my friend and I got mugged while we were walking in the park. Nobody is afraid of gay guys. "
8 " thought you went to college here. Did you party too much and drop out?” “No, I got a philosophy degree.” “Oh.” “I’ll get the guns. "
9 " surrender to the strident sunshine, it "
10 " Did you party too much and drop out?” “No, I got a philosophy degree. "
11 " we can download a ton of information onto a flash drive. We’ll be able to work out a way to read it later when we need it, but "
12 " Dan gave chase with his big, blue-collar hands grasping at my shirttail. "
13 " The upper middle-class cracker neighborhood ignored me, focused instead on its own pockets of human chaos. Four "
14 " Sometimes, a half-bottle of breakfast tequila just isn’t enough to deal with the day’s reality. "