Books Quote by Ruta Sepetys

“And grief was dangerous, because people fought hard and smart to protect the living. People got themselves—and everyone around them—killed trying to avenge the…

— Kit Rocha

“According to his upbringing, there were certain subjects that it was ill-mannered to raise in conversation with a new acquaintance. With the likes of…

— Jonathan L. Howard

“When death stood round the corner, taking lives like a gardener digging up potatoes, it was foolishness to care what dirty things this person…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from…

— Joe Abercrombie

“He decides it is better to die in Ireland than in Paris because in Ireland the outdoors looks like the outdoors and gravestones are…

— Alison MacLeod

“He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying.…

— William Kent Krueger

“Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper…

— Donna Leon

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

“ This morning, on the avenue, my death was walking next to me, under the plane-trees. I came back home, lied on the bed.…

— Christian Bobin

“White trash had a way of finding their graves. Along with wife beating and beer sucking, dying was probably their only core competency.”

— J.R. Ward

“Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not startle the…

— Neil Gaiman

“Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After”

— Samantha Sotto