Quote by Marissa Meyer

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë

“They grow up twisted, crippled, crazy. She would probably be taken and killed. She wouldn’t even be buried. They’d be worried”

— Lauren Oliver

“Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.”

— Meredith Duran

“She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.”

— Bette Lee Crosby

“She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.”

— Allison Brennan

“She buried herself so deep in the book no harm could ever find her.”

— Susan Johnson

“She would die feeling, because that was the way she had always lived.”

— Britt Skrabanek

“She’s dead. She’s dead.”

— Karen Russell

“That someone would mourn her death made her want to live in the fiercest way.”

— H. L. Burke

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went.…

— Robert Harris

“Oh, she's got so in the habit of living she'll never die.”

— Emily of New Moon

“She wanted to die. She wanted to die. Because then it would be over. All the loss, all the grief, all the pain, the…

— Michelle Sagara West