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• I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred.

  Wilson Rawls

  Beautiful, Girl, Spring

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• She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.

  Lauren Kate

  Heart, Wind, Feelings

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.268, Delacorte Press

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• I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

  Gail Carriger

  Land, Gone, Novel

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• A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Mother, Tree, Saws

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Maybe This Time”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

  Glen Cook

  Soldier, Wonder, Guilty

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• A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Dog, Cancer, Night

  Yasunari Kawabata (2017). “House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories”, p.12, Vintage

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• ...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

  Patrick Ness

  Stupid, Dying, Pissed Off

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Minutes, Wanted, Five

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

  Henry Rollins

  People, Parent, Treats

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• If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.

  Anthony Burgess

  Political, Pretending, Treacherous

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

  Rob Thurman

  Stupid, People

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• I know he would die if you died, Luce

  Lauren Kate

  Torment, Knows, Dies

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.471, Delacorte Press

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• Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences

  Annie Ernaux

  War, Lying, Writing

  Annie Ernaux (2011). “Simple Passion”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats and their relative coolness.

  Lauren Oliver

  Two, Lunch, Meat

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• But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.

  Mary Balogh

  Two, People, Feelings

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• the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Feelings, Delight, Facts

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• The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Memories, Flower, Wedding Day

  "Fictional character: Terry Randall". Stage Door, www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

  John Green

  Morning, Feel Better, Nurse

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.18, Penguin

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• Wha...what are you smiling for...? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!!

  Ryukishi07

  Tabasco, Needles, Ifs

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• What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps he had been drowned and was reborn in another form. No, he recognized himself, he recognized his hands and feet, the place where he lay and the Self in his breast, Siddhartha, self-willed, individualistic. But this Siddhartha was somewhat changed, renewed. He had slept wonderfully. He was remarkably awake, happy and curious.

  Hermann Hesse

  Sleep, Self, Hands

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• He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.

  Nicole Krauss

  Phones, Embarrassed

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

  Stephen King

  Sad, Heartbreak, Thinking

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.443, Simon and Schuster

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• Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Father, Real

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.343, Scholastic Inc.

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• The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do you think I care about these trifles?’ ‘Murder is no trifle, woman,’ Arthur said. ‘No? How many men have you killed, Great King? How many have you slain without cause? How many did you cut down that you might have spared? How many died because you in your battle-rage would not heed their pleas for mercy?’ The High King opened his mouth to speak, but could make no answer.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Kings, Queens, Cutting

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• Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing.

  Harper Lee

  Morning, Snow, Half

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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