Quotes of: Dead-people Keyword

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

Speaker for the Dead

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Speaker for the Dead

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Speaker for the Dead

But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Pay attention,” Gareth said to Moxie. “If it comes down to a choice of gettin’ captured or killed by Saxons or brigands, dead is less bad,

Moxie's Problem

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Mary Queen of Scots

Jesus honey, your husband ain’t dead, he’s in hiding.” He growled, watching her visibly flinch. - Jase Devlin

Nowhere to Hide

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

No Longer Human

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

Not Quite a Husband

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Open City

I was dead unit you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.

Lover Awakened

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

Looking for Alaska

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

Lockdown

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

The Laughing Corpse

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Love Letters to the Dead

No puedes estar seguro de cómo va a resultar, incluso si lo haces todo bien. Las cosas se vuelven en tu contra, la vida lo hace.

Love Letters to the Dead

But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.

The Lost Girl

A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.

London, the Doggy and Me

It is seriously creepy when you receive a friend request from a dead friend in social media asking you to accept.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

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