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Torrent (Slow Burn, #5) Torrent by Bobby Adair
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“Sure, shit happens we can’t control, but that’s exactly what it is: shit you can’t control. You can’t control what it is, or sometimes what it does to you. But like I’ve told you before, you can control how you feel about it, how you deal with it.”
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“what you can see,” Murphy whispered and turned his”
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“appointed himself lookout so I could indulge my dangerous”
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“with the virus but in a rumpled suit and tie, come storming out of the shop. In one hand he had what looked like”
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“there anything to be learned from that? Was there any”
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“You know what they say.” “What?” “Curiosity killed the Zed.” “Do you make this shit up, or do you have bad writers?”
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“The day Nico chose to have children, he only had one job in the whole Goddamned world, and that was to protect those kids. But he didn’t. He was the predator they needed to be protected from.”
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“the virus had a benefit I hadn’t thought about. The mosquito bites didn’t itch.”
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“How many dead can a person see before the pieces of his soul turn to ash and float off in the wind?”
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“his smile was alone on his face. His eyes were sad and angry.”
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“how you would feel if your old girlfriend showed up and she had the IQ of a frog. You’d”
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“that stupid little good angel that sits on your shoulder doesn’t know shit.”
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“The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I”
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“systematically looking at each of the fly-covered tattoos on one of the walls.”
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“how to quickly stuff my panic into a little black box and ignore it. Panic was the enemy of clear, quick thought and”
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“I was defined. I knew what I was. I was vengeance.”
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“take you upriver somewhere and put you out on the shore. Don’t come back around us. If”
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“slowly fell into himself, a sandstone sculpture of sadness, comatose, wearing away in a coarse wind.”
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“A choice to do nothing was a choice to passively die at the hands of a cruel future. I”
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“Better to see coming danger than to simply run and pray. Though I could make a pretty good case for run and pray.”
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“To move was to live. To live… Well, living was better than not. Being”
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“Naked on the bank, they looked like refugees waiting for the mercy of sepsis. It”
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“Hell, I’m looking at tattoo skins from dead people that might be my sister’s. How fucked up is that?”
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“To choose to live, to make that choice to fight for life every day, had to be a choice to accept all the sorrows of all of my tomorrows. But if that choice to live was to be bearable at all, I needed to let loose my embrace of the pain, both yesterday’s and tomorrow’s.”
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“They were the faces of the culture in which I grew up. That culture was dead.”
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