
“…I made a deal with myself. I would keep you alive. I’d find a place. I would fix that. And then… I couldn’t open that door. I couldn’t risk it. I was gonna keep you alive. Carl, the baby, and then… I thought there’d be time. There’s never time. But I loved you. I love you. I couldn’t put it back together. I should have said it.”
“I know how the safety works.”
”(…) I know you. I know who you are. You said you’d turn yours on at dawn. That’s what you said. I mean, I hadn’t worked up to it yet, and— then I did. On the roof, every morning for days, for weeks, me and my boy. And then… Me. Just static, though. Nothing but static. And then nothing but nothing. You weren’t there. You were never there. No, not when I tried. I mean, you said you would turn on your radio every day at dawn. You said that you would turn on your radio… Every day at dawn and you were not there!”
“You want me to say he made me get naked and stand in front of him? He came up behind me. Pushed himself against me. Put his hands all over me. He slammed my head down and bent me over a table. Rape me? No. No. Do you feel better? Either I take off my shirt or he would take off your hand. I just listened to Merle beating the shit out of you in the other room. What could I do?”
