Died Quotes - Page 17

• I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.

  Anne Rice

  Looks, Way, Bears

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.133, Ballantine Books

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• The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a long time

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Past, Men

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

  Mira Grant

  Mother, Kids, Son

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• L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even for the modeling. . .Jacaranda died last winter when the flowering trees were bare. You couldn't even tell which ones once cried the purple blossoms she named herself after.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Wall, Writing, Winter

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• She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

  Mira Grant

  Saws, Happens, Along For The Ride

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.346, Hachette UK

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• We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.

  Amy Winehouse

  Goodbye, Black, Hundred

  Song: Back To Black, Album: Back to Black, 2007

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• This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

  Hilary Duff

  Real, Ends, Staring

  Hilary Duff (2011). “Elixir”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• ...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Three, Daggers

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• Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn’t died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.

  Tamora Pierce

  Heart, Men, People

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.441, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Running, Wall

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• To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.119, 谷月社

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• A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Song, Distance, Wind

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.

  Anne Fortier

  Song, Sleep, Garden

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Suicide, Brave

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• They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

  Tim O'Brien

  Memories, Grief, Emotional

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

  Melina Marchetta

  Rocks, Paper, Scissors

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Book, Thoughtful, Years

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• We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Needs, Dictator, Lost

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.38, Macmillan

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• It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Men, Race

  Julia Quinn (2006). “On the way to the wedding”

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• Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

  Rick Riordan

  Voice, Wimps, Frank

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.101, Penguin UK

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• What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.

  Mark Haddon

  Flower, Garden, Skeletons

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• Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

  Laurie R. King

  Mean, Fire, Essence

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.441, Bantam

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• Isabelle glanced back at them. "They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets." She grinned. "Or," Simon said ,"maybe they're here for the hash browns.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pet, Vampire, Hash

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1296, Simon and Schuster

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• I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

  Arthur Golden

  Men, Gone Away, People

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.427, Random House

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• I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Memories, Ocean

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