#dead

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. ↗

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows. ↗

— John Barnes

#calliope #dead-princes #sleeping-beauty #stories #tales

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#bough #dead #drop #ever #felt

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#bandit #between #conventional #deadly #georgia

Conservation is now a dead word. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#dead #now #word

A man who is not with a woman is a dead man. ↗

— William A. Drake

#man #who #woman

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#dead #i #laugh #majority #make

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. ↗