Quote by Nick Hornby

“It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I’m not dead either.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.”

— Idries Shah

“When I've thought about him dying - which admittedly isn't that much - I always thought of it like you said, that all the…

— John Green

“Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Death? Since when is death failure?”

— Steven Erikson

“Death was terribly durable. It was the sturdiest idea around. A body was dead, and before long it wasn't even a body anymore, it…

— Rick Moody

“The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I…

— Jim Butcher

“That body did not bleed while I carried it, Nesbit. You touch it but a moment, and it bleeds." "No, I didn't kill her."…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“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

“Instead of dying, instead of slowly disappearing until only a broken body remained, what happened was quite the opposite - my body began to…

— Leslye Walton

“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”

— Muriel Barbery

“I know now that there is something dead inside me though I cannot remember exactly when it died.”

— Claire North