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“The world had paid so little attention to him that he supposed he was dead. He hoped he was dead.”

— Vonnegut Kurt

“He saw his coming death, and wasn’t afraid of it anymore. He’d miss all the good stuff to follow, but he’d help make it…

— James S.A. Corey

“Dr. Phil never talked about Smyrna and left the room if anyone did. He never mentioned his murdered sons and daughters. Maybe this was…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“But he doubted the dead could think or feel anything. In his opinion, that was ones of the great things about dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”

— James Baldwin

“He was in his coffin, ready to be buried, and yet he knew that he wasn’t dead.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Going through the motions, like a person who was already dead and just didn’t know it yet.”

— Christa Faust

“Phil doesn't say yes, but he doesn't really say no. He's willing to ruin a person's life in order to keep her from being…

— Nell Freudenberger

“So you killed him with what now?" "I tried that Dr. Phil book at first"..."And I finished it off with the toilet seat. Just…

— Jesse Petersen

“he didn’t feel as if dying would be the easy way out.”

— James Dashner

“I needed to know that Death was here, in the room, and that I was too fast, too young, and too smart for him.”

— Tony O'Neill

“But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.”

— Martin Fletcher