Death Quote by Ken Kesey

“While tearing apart a bird with fat fingers,”

— George R.R. Martin

“He looked at the shoe-laces—Dick had tied them that morning. He had tied them—and now he was this heavy white mass. All that remained…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“he took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and…

— Homer

“The plucked and dressed bodies of the chickens will then be sold to millions of families who will gnaw on their bones without pausing…

— Peter Singer

“One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack of fear.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.”

— Donna Tartt

“Yes, word had gotten around about my amusing little defeathering trick (note: made the chicken naked). Apparently we couldn't just eat the poor thing…

— Cate Tiernan

“... a bullock, backing in alarm from the halter, crashed its craggy behind into my midriff. The wind shot out of me in a…

— James Herriot

“Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on…

— Truman Capote

“Outside the basement door was a covered pen that housed a rooster and a seagull. The rooster had been on his way to Colonel…

— David Remnick

“A nurse’s aid threw the contents of a patient’s water glass out a window, the mass of water hitting the ground dislodging a pebble…

— David Foster Wallace

“Terrible accident; body parts was everywhere—-fingers, toes, wings, beaks. Ambulance people tried to scoop him all up, but apparently it ain’t so easy as…

— R.J. Leahy