— If you ever want help, call me, or you're dead.
— I'll do that.
— Listen, that girl wasn't your type. Her loss, right?
— I should have broke that bastard's jaw.
— Maybe you were lucky.
— He could have broke yours.
— Impossible.
— You know, Christmas, I understand, but let's just say you were with her for a couple of hours, and it's nice, and it's hot and heavy, but after that, think about it. What do you do for the rest of the day? She probably did you a favor. Now you have more time to feel sorry for yourself.
— You're a bleak bastard.
— You're not that fast any more.
— The only thing faster is lightning.
— We'll see.
— Bullets go faster than blades.
— Are you hit?
— Yeah, twice.
— Better you than me.
— I heard another rumor, that you were bitten by a kind cobra?
— Yeah, I was. But after five days of agonizing pain, the cobra died.
I hate to break this to you, pal, but your girlfriend over there has a world-class cheating gene.
Why is it that the one of us who wants to live the most, who deserves to live the most, dies? And the ones that deserve to die, keep on living?
— You know, she stands for something. You know, man, we don't stand for shit. We used to, but that dried all up, like this is gonna dry all up. This here paint is gonna dry.
— What dried up?
— Just belief, man. Just the belief in the soul, just, I don't know, the human parts, brother. You remember that time we was up in Bosnia? We took down them Serb bad boys. All our guys were getting chopped up all around us, and there was blood everywhere. I never thought I was gonna make it out of there, — and I know you didn't, either.
— Yeah.
— Kind of feeling like dead, too, you know? <...> I remember I got this bottle of the local shit they have over there, that Slivovitz. I don't know, I think that's what it was called. And I ain't feeling no pain now. And I'd come up on this... I'd come up on this old wooden bridge, and I see this... I see this woman standing there, you know? And she's... I stepped out, and she saw me, and she's just looking right in my eyes, and I was looking right in her eyes. I knew what she was gonna do. She looked at me, and I knew she was gonna jump. You know what I did, man? I just turned around and I kept walking, until I heard that splash. Then she was gone. And after taking all them lives, here was one that I could have saved, but I didn't. And what I realized later on was, if I had saved that woman, I might have, I don't know, saved what was left of my soul, you know?
— You're on your own.
— Appreciate it. It's good to have friends.
— Are you crazy? You could have killed me!
— You're welcome.
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