#eat

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #perhaps #death

Sometimes dead is better ↗

— Stephen King

#dead #death #undead #death

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. ↗

— Pythagoras

#death #life #light #death

A cop? You married a bloody cop?" "I married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#eve-dallas #death

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #death

The only sin is the sin of being born ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#death #sin #death

Wisdom's daughter walks alone—” “Ella!” Frank stood suddenly. “Maybe it's not the best time—” “The Mark of Athena burns through Rome,” Ella continued, cupping her hands over her ears and raising her voice. “Twins snuff out the angel's breath, Who holds the key to endless death. Giants' bane stands gold and pale, Won with pain from a woven jail. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#ella #future #heroes-of-olympus #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #prophecy

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#armageddon #cinema #death #end-of-the-world #life

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#death

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#ignorance #proverb #death