Cases Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

“He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody had really had it in for him or four…

— Richard S. Prather

It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“So it was. Suicide by prostitute . . . “It’s all right,” he said, soothing her trembling arms. “You’ll be unable to control yourself.…

— Cèsar Sanchez Zapata The Order of the Mantis

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

— Honore de Balzac

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking…

— Julian Barnes

“Not even a suicide these days does away with himself in desperation but deliberates on this step so long and so sensibly that he…

— Kierkegaard, Soren

“Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Ivan had never thought of his nightmares as being insufficiently imaginative, before tonight. Dark, wet, constricted, underground, check. How had he left out biohazards?…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“That makes three suicides without logical explanations. Now, for people like Fitzhugh and the senator, with their kind of financial base, there’s counseling at…

— J.D. Robb

“With most people suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet…

— jeffrey eugenides

“He had murdered his wife in a fit of jealousy, and immediately given himself up to the police. (This had considerably mitigated his sentence).…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky