Contemporary Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

“I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we…

— Henri Barbusse

“I wasn't really eight anymore. The day you know danger and fear, and know that you are alone, is the day you grow, if…

— Claudia Shear

“I wasn't dead. This meant something. We all take our lives for granted so often, we forget that this, right here, this moment, is…

— Tabatha Beshears

“Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much. The remains.”

— K.W. Jeter

“I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.”

— Sara Baume

“This tiny moment. In between the time you decide to pull a trigger and the time death arrives. There's just you and it and…

— Amie Kaufman

“Do you know what I thought when you tried to kill me? The first time? I thought, How can somebody want me dead when…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home,…

— Caroline Flohr

“First you get old, and then you die.”

— J.A. Jance

“And everytime you die, a little piece of me dies with you.”

— Courtney Allison Moulton

“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would ever make…

— Jeff Lindsay

“My body kills me, so I kill it.”

— Dorotheus the Theban