But my darling was as frail as a bird. She died nine days…

“He felt the ground frail as a bird’s skull under his feet, a mere shell of sanity and decorum between him and the dark…

— Sylvia Plath

“For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy. Had not this bird died in him,…

— Hermann Hesse

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

— Sara Gruen

My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had…

— Beverly Sills

Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his…

— John Green

“FRANKLIN, Ind. — A Johnson County Jail inmate has died, four days after he was found unconscious after swallowing toilet paper. The 42-year-old Greenwood,…

— Anonymous

“Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been allowed to…

— David Mitchell

“Camille died a few days later. Our daughter's hearts bear the first real cracks they have had to endure since we came into each…

— Scott Simon

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

— Eugene Ormandy

I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

— Winston Churchill

“Tests showed there was no enrichment. “They’re just slinging purified uranium at us, straight from the mines,” Bob said. But the next week Bob…

— Gregory Benford

Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

— Spike Milligan

“She died a few days later, and her death buried once and for all the intrigues between the Precious Wife, the Gracious Wife, and…

— Shan Sa

... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and…

— Sara Gruen

“Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin,…

— Brandon Sanderson