Contagion Quotes by Steven Ramirez

“Drive. He’s already dead.”

— Steven Ramirez

“Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.”

— Steven Ramirez

“Dude, don’t die out here.”

— Steven Ramirez

“‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.”

— Steven Ramirez

“This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.”

— Steven Ramirez

“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”

— Steven Ramirez

“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.”

— Steven Ramirez

“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?”

— Steven Ramirez

“Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.”

— Steven Ramirez

“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.”

— Steven Ramirez

“His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.”

— Steven Ramirez

“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.”

— Steven Ramirez

“For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.”

— Steven Ramirez

“When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.”

— Steven Ramirez

“But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life.…

— Steven Ramirez

“I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help…

— Steven Ramirez

“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an…

— Steven Ramirez

“I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.”

— Steven Ramirez

“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.”

— Steven Ramirez

“‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’”

— Steven Ramirez

“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”

— Steven Ramirez

“The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.”

— Steven Ramirez

“‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.”

— Steven Ramirez

“I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.”

— Steven Ramirez

“You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.”

— Steven Ramirez

“You can’t get the blood out.”

— Steven Ramirez

“If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.”

— Steven Ramirez

“A riverless silence made the air heavy.”

— Steven Ramirez

“This place is Hell’s waiting room.”

— Steven Ramirez

“There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.”

— Steven Ramirez

“She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.”

— Steven Ramirez

“We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.”

— Steven Ramirez

“I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.”

— Steven Ramirez

“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.”

— Steven Ramirez

“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.”

— Steven Ramirez

“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”

— Steven Ramirez

“I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.”

— Steven Ramirez

“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…

— Steven Ramirez

“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.”

— Steven Ramirez

“I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.”

— Steven Ramirez