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Quotes About Death

All I see, he thought, is a dead body breathing.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Life was cheap in war.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
it was believed that the former sergeant, hunted, exiled and in despair, had stabbed himself to death.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Gabriel Squeezed His Eyes Shut. In the distance He Heard shay Screaming His Nam. What Had he done.? The answer Slammed Into His Mind. He Had Fallen in Love with Her. It had Clouded His Judgment. He LOVED Her, HEART, SOUL, And BODY. And He Had Sentenced Her To Death.
~ Laura J. Burns
When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay down at the center of it and died.
~ Laura Kasischke
Something wild was going on in that coffin….I was growing shoots and leaves and blossoms. Moss. Bugs. Worms. She leaned over my corpse to kiss my lips, but they were warm instead of cold, and then she realized the dead girl wasn't me at all. Who was that? Who was that dead girl squirming with life? And then she realized- That was her. Our bodies had been switched. Mine for hers.
~ Laura Kasischke
Well, I keep forgetting. You never listened to my suggestions. Never asked for my advice. When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay down at the center of it and died.
~ Laura Kasischke
There is dancing and laughter in hell, an angel weeping openly on a park bench in heaven. My mother, dead and frantic in an attic. A white shirt on a floor. An old man in a wheelchair, rubbing his eyes. Here it is, here it is! the occupational therapists sing as they rise to the surface of the earth, smiling, bearing their terrible surprise.
~ Laura Kasischke
John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't know dick about what it's like to be a homicide cop in Baltimore.
~ Laura Lippman
She had thought: No, I was dead. Now I'm
~ Laura Lippman
A woman dies young, it's man trouble.
~ Laura Lippman
En este país nuestro ha sido tanta la guerra, tanta, soportada por demasiado tiempo, que los vivos ya estamos acostumbrados y los muertos olvidados y no hay quien registre el catálogo. La violencia pesa y pasa, así sin más, pasa y arrasa, y la muerte se ha ido volviendo vida cotidiana.
~ Laura Restrepo
La Muerte tiene una hermana, más taimada y perseverante, que se llama Agonía. La dama Agonía me sostiene en sus brazos desde aquella vez-
~ Laura Restrepo
That lost literature which only death reads.
~ Laura Riding
I also wonder what it would be like to meet Jesus, and how I'm going to die.
~ Laura Van Ryn
Life's a bitch," I said. And then you die," Larry finished for me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
at the hospital] "What do you think's taking them so long?"[...] "Well," I say "They obviously don't think it's a big deal or they would have carted you right back here." "Or," Lacey says, "they probably know I'm going to die and so they're leaving me out here because they need to help the people who actually have a chance." "Lacey," I say. "Did you see them bringing in the guys who was bleeding profusely from the head?" "Yes," she says. "If that guy has a chance, then you definitely do.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
Ro, he's human and he cares about you. He has no way of knowing you're like this super-human, Goddess-channelling Vessel of death and destruction worthy of one very cool Japanese anime series
~ Lauren Dane
I find it's important to keep on your toes with English people because they're fucking devious while they blandly polite you to death.
~ Lauren Dane
Maybe I'm dead. The thought is not as scary as it probably should be. I'm so calm, so comfortable. The coffin lining is soft beneath me, and it's fairly roomy; I'm touching the side with my right shoulder, but that's okay. I don't feel cramped. Of course, it's pitch-black, but that's strangely comforting. I roll over and realize there's a pillow under my head. How very nice of them to put a pillow in my coffin. Really thoughtful.
~ Lauren Henderson
YOU WILL DIE OF SUFFOCATION IN THE ICY COLD OF SPACE.
~ Lauren Myracle
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you. Alex. When you have it. Alex. And when you don't. Alex.
~ Lauren Oliver