Died Quotes - Page 23

• Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)

  Ann Aguirre

  Different, Deuces, Roles

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.139, Macmillan

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• She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

  John Green

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.82, Penguin

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• A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.

  Allan Pease

  Dog, Real, Beer

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• Kisten, please don't leave me," I begged, and his eyes opened. "I'm cold," he said, fear rising in his blue eyes. I held him tighter. "I'm holding you. It's going to be okay." "Tell Ivy," he said with a gasp, clenching in on himself. "Tell Ivy that it wasn't her fault. And tell her that at the end... you remember love. I don't think... we lose our souls... at all. I think God keeps them for us until we... come home. I love you, Rachel." "I love you, too, Kisten," I sobbed, and as I watched, his eyes, memorizing my face, silvered, and he died.

  Kim Harrison

  Love You, Home, Eye

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• Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.

  George R. R. Martin

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.998, Bantam

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• But what if it were you? What if you were stuffed in a human body and let loose on this planet only to find yourself lost among your own kind? What if you were such a good person that you tried to save the life that you'd taken that you almost died trying to get her back to her family? What if you then found yourself surrounded by violent aliens who hated you and tried to hurt you and tried to murder you over and over again? What if you just kept doing whatever you could to save and heal people despite that? Wouldn't you deserve a life too? Wouldn't you have earned that much?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Taken, People

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• I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know." He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. " I know," he said. "everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Ships, Faces

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Ashes”, p.449, Simon and Schuster

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• As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Summer, Mother, Father

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• ..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ants

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• He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

  S. E. Hinton

  Someday, Desperate, Violent

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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• A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

  Rumi

  Love, Knowing, Able

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• There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the early days, who had simply lain down and given up, unable to cope with the terrible things that were happening in the world. These boys were survivors. The will to live was stronger than any other feelings.

  Charlie Higson

  Kids, Boys, Feelings

  Charlie Higson (2009). “The Enemy”, p.26, Penguin UK

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• Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Heart, Decision, Feelings

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• The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Heart, Butterfly

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• I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Bed, Arms, Right Now

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• Laugh, I Nearly Died," Andrew answers. "You've probably never heard that one before.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Laughing, Answers, Andrew

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• She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.

  Laini Taylor

  Awful, Armpits, Trembling

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• I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned

  Laini Taylor

  Mountain, Rebel, Toes

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• She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.

  James Dashner

  Way, My Way, Ifs

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One)”, p.300, Delacorte Press

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• the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table,drawing wings with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept remembering how your mind looked when it slept for several years,to wake up asking why. So then you turned into a photograph of somebody who’s trying not to laugh at somebody who’s trying not to cry

  e. e. cummings

  New York, Heart, Years

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?

  Derek Landy

  Ties, Shoelaces

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• They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Games, Salary

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Hate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.

  Chris Colfer

  Reading, Believe, Thinking

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• Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said, "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something... Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... But I mustn't get my hopes up.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Eye, Looks

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