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“it was as if he shrank a couple of inches in the years that followed. As if he sort of crumpled with a deep…

— Fredrik Backman

He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop…

— Paul Auster

“And in a way, this was how he had come to see his death, as a series of small ones taking place over the…

— Paule Marshall

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

— Anne Tyler

“He had not died but he had faded out like a film in the sun. He had been lost or had wandered out of…

— James Joyce

The front of his face exploded out the back of his skull. He died instantly, the next day.

— Andy Samberg

“Disappeared' is the only way to describe it-it was as if he dissolved into thin air without so much as a whimper. I wouldn't…

— Yōko Ogawa

“One man had been completely submerged in the boiling liquid which inundated the cabin, and in his removal to the deck, the skin had…

— Walter Johnson

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

— Joseph Campbell

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He is a collection of tissues and cells delicately and intricately conjoined and brought to life for only an instant. It will take just…

— Alain de Botton

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

— Mark Haddon