Died Quotes - Page 16

• She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Long, Stories, Forgotten

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

  Thomas Friedman

  Sports, Heart, Fate

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.373, Picador

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• I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge). The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.

  Yann Martel

  Jobs, Blue, Hands

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Wimps, Said

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.108, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a loud, gurgling groan. Somebody shouted, "Oh my gosh! Miss Delaware just died!" "--- for gettin some of us here safe," Taylor continued. "And we pray that, as we are fine, upstandin', law-abidin' girls who represent the best of the best, you will protect us from harm and keep us safe until we are rescued and can tell our story to People magazine. Amen." - "Beauty Queens

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Jesus, Queens

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death," and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one.

  Norman Maclean

  Knowing, Forever, Way

  Norman Maclean (2017). “Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Feels, Right Now, Ifs

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.

  Alan Bennett

  War, People, Mourning

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• I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Regret, Home, Two

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• Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Mean, People

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• That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Pain, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.21, Bantam

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• Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he’s still out there, bidin’ his time, like, but I don’ believe it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Had Enough, Opinion

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• Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness.

  Cassandra Clare

  Darkness, World, Sometimes

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.

  Lynda Barry

  Mother, Heart, Feet

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

  Eva Ibbotson

  People, Eternity, Dare

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• [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Stones, Ends

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Father, War, Lied

  "Common Form" l. 1 (1919)

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• but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.

  Mitch Albom

  Phones, Roots, Rivers

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• New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then they died away as the teacher was absorbed like everyone else...before you knew it, the fresh ones seemed to have been teaching there forever too, or else they didn't last very long, and were gone before you'd gotten to know them.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

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• We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Should Have, Yesterday, Wiser

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Stills, Angry, Ifs

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• The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that that sort of love only worked when you were sure both people would always be around for each other. If one half of the equation left, or died, or was slightly less perfect in their love, it became the most tragic, pathetic story invented, laughable in its absurdity. Without Grace, Sam was a joke without a punch line.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  People, Perfect, Grace

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• But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.

  Melissa Bank

  Eye, Doors, Rooms

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.151, Penguin

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• He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

  John Green

  Mother, Believe, Clothes

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.17, Penguin

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• When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Loyalty, Understanding

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