Quote by William Gibson

“He'd wanted to die on the spot, but he had the rotten luck of living through it.”

— Sandra Brown

“Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Then he had run, unarmed and bleeding, trusting to the maze like confusion of the ruins to evade the monster behind him.”

— John Flanagan

“and I'd die of his emptiness even more than I'm dying of my own.”

— Marilyn French

“I sensed that he was dead, but wasn't sure if death was forever. It seemed best to stay nearby, in case the chance came…

— Sonya Hartnett

“The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.”

— Martin Fletcher

“If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.”

— Leslea Tash

“Sure, he'd kill, she didn't doubt that, but she got the impression he'd rather leave you maimed someplace so you could die nice and…

— Carolyn Jewel

“He couldn't have what he'd once had; he'd already destroyed it.”

— Brenda Novak

“Perhaps they were dead and imagined they were living? Perhaps everyone was dead? Perhaps he’d always been dead? That what he’d always assumed was…

— Karl Ove Knausgård