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“You have to survive because I won't live in a world without you.”

— Lauren Kate

“I needed to survive tonight to keep living my life as if nothing had happened.”

— Carolina Soto

“I am here now, half alive, but alive. I am no longer waiting for the world outside to let me live, slow and sure,…

— Sarah Ann Walker

“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside…

— Natalie Babbitt

“Without death, life loses its meaning - without meaning, you were already dead.”

— Kevin Bohacz

“And then the world beats you down a little, and some of the color goes out of life, and you settle for reality…”

— Stephenie Meyer

“I was not living but actively dying.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.”

— The Lovely Bones

“I wasn't dead. This meant something. We all take our lives for granted so often, we forget that this, right here, this moment, is…

— Tabatha Beshears

“I might be alive now, but I’d experienced what I thought was my final, one-and-only permanent death. That hadn’t been fun, that soulless, hopeless…

— B.V. Larson

“Had you not been born, you would not know that it is like to be alive, and without life, death is impossible to understand.”

— Keith Donohue

“In those seconds, I was mourning everything I'd lost. How I'd never get to see you walk down an aisle toward me, how I'd…

— Kiera Cass