#mo

By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry #harry-potter #humor #j-k-rowling #order-of-the-phoenix

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

The monster nevers dies. ↗

— Stephen King

#monster #death

Glen used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#grammar #immortality #death

He took her hand in his and knelt before her. Valkyrie looked at him. He was serious. (...)'Dude, I'm sixteen.' 'I love you.' 'That doesn't make me any older. Stand up.' 'Not until you say yes.' 'You're going to shuffle around on your knees for the rest of your life? Stand up, for God's sake.' 'Be my wife.' 'Shut the hell up. ↗

— Derek Landy

#death

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto. ↗

— David Sedaris

#humor

I have the death sentence in seven genres. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#death

Only death will take me away from you, vampire girl," he whispered. "And even then, I'll watch over you from wherever I end up. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#zeke-crosse #death

What about e-mail? It is e-mail, yes?" Morley asked, leaning even closer. "E-mail is a kind of electronic letter. It travels through the air." He seemed very smug that he knew that. "Well, not exactly, and would you please either BACK OFF or go find a shower? ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #morley #rachel-caine #death

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain ↗

— Alexander Pope

#death