"Had I truly thought I would not die……" — Martine Leavitt
"Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his."
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Martine Leavitt
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16 Quotes by Martine Leavitt
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These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of…
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If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good…
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I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps…
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Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her…
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And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his…
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...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she…
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Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the…
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Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
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It is life that hurts you not death.
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When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death…
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His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that…
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Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.
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