Her feet were bare, her mouth stained damson. Her pockets…

“She was young and lovely and surprised and dead.”

— Laini Taylor

“I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that changed…

— James Caskey

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

— Anonymous

“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for." Banks tells…

— Marisha Pessl

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

— Patricia Briggs

Rather be dead than cool.

— Kurt Cobain

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

— Henrik Ibsen

Library: A place where the dead lie.

— Elbert Hubbard

“I’m just–” She wanted to say “not in the mood,” but that was not only a cliché but a vast understatement. She was dead.”

— Will McIntosh

If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.'

— Laurie Holden

Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

— Maynard James Keenan

I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put…

— Debbie Reynolds