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“It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have been happier…

— Terry Pratchett

“If I wasn’t so happy he was alive, I would’ve killed him.”

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

“Truth was, I didn't really want to die today. I was in the middle of a really good book, and being alive had always…

— Jessica Fortunato

“The blows of his heart might jar him loose, crash him down, but he was glad to hear them, know himself alive.”

— Ray Bradbury

“He was a mediocre man. He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre,…

— Colson Whitehead Zone One

“There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked.”

— Colson Whitehead

“people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead.”

— Tim O'Brien

“Die slowly, Tom.”

— S.J. Kincaid

“He had to live out the entirety of his life as Dalton Prestwick. It was really a worse fate than anything Tom could inflict…

— S.J. Kincaid

“Whatever lay ahead, he was glad to be alive.”

— Stephen King

“Being alive is a killer, if you think about it.”

— Haruki Murakami

“there were so many different ways to die, and I just need to know which was his.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer