#new

Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#mike-newton #twilight-saga #violence #death

Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#news #papers #suicide #world #death

And you, Tommy” the boy said, lowering his voice. “You’ve got a lot of nerve coming here and asking me to leave with you. A lot of bloody nerve. The sight of you makes me sick ↗

— James Dashner

#thomas #death

I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers. ↗

— John Twelve Hawks

#consumer #news #television #tv #death

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#grief #news #newspapers #death

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was. ↗

— Paul Desmond

#before #i #knew #long #overlooked

All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#death

As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew. ↗

— Phil Wohl

#love-story #rebirth #renewal #death

Suddenly Adam (Upton) hated death just as much as he hated life, and now he had absolutely no idea how to unsolve that equation. -- From my upcoming novel "Streaks of Blue: How the Angels of Newtown Inspired One Girl to Save Her School. ↗

— Jack Chaucer

#newtown #streaks-of-blue #death

I'd love to see that rat nose smashed! ↗

— James Dashner

#death