Joaquin Lowe Quotes

#1. Before we part, she returns my gun and says, "As long as you carry this you are in danger of using it.

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#2. The sand doesn't care if you're made of flesh or stone.

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#3. The glass is riddled with bullets on either side of The Stranger, but the glass before him is unbroken, as though the bullets didn't dare approach.
That's when I work out what he is: a bullet catcher.

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#4. All my supplies are gone and I'm going to die out here. I thought it would be more frightening, dying, but after so many days walking, after so much hunger and thirst, it's a release.

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#5. You don't give yourself enough credit. Ignorance keeps you mean. Learning makes you kind.

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#6. The road home is tinged with regret and the road forward is full of the unknown.

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#7. Ahead of me is the open desert, hot and merciless. Behind me is Sand. I don't turn back; I don't say goodbye. The Bullet Catcher carves a straight line through the desert, walking towards the distant mountains.
And I follow.

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#8. It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.

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#9. After drinking the blood I feel inches closer to death, but resolved to live. I've drunk blood. I can do anything. I'm the vampire girl. I crawl close to the fox and press myself against it. It's still warm. That's how sleep takes me, with blood on my face, holding close to the fading warmth.

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