#twdfaveps

Committing to a choice like this, after living how we did — free — I get it. It's hard. It's giving up everything, right up until your own life. But either your heart's beating, or it isn't. Your loved ones' hearts are beating, or they aren't. We take what they give us so that we can live.

You live with it by staying who you are. By not letting the bad things change you.

I think I might just accept that some of us are lucky enough to just live, some of us are lucky enough to just fight. I don't think it ends. What we're doing, the end of the fight is what we're fighting for.  Winning just means we get tomorrow. Maybe one more night. Maybe one more morning. After that... no guarantees.

No one gets to clock out today. And hell, this is a story people are gonna tell.

the walking dead | favorite episode(s) of every season   season 2  ▶️  episode 7: pretty much dead already

When I was a kid, I asked my grandpa once if he ever killed any Germans in the war. He wouldn't answer. He said that was grown-up stuff, so... I asked if the Germans ever tried to kill him. But he got real quiet. He said he was dead the minute he stepped into enemy territory. Every day, he woke up and told himself, "Rest in peace. Now get up and go to war." And then after a few years of pretending he was dead, he made it out alive. That's the trick of it, I think. We do what we need to do, and then we get to live. But no matter what we find in DC, I know we'll be okay. Because this is how we survive. We tell ourselves that we are the walking dead.

So what is it? The good that comes out of this bad?