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“I have died too many deaths that were not mine.”
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

“I love you.
I love you a thousand times.
I love you an irrational number.
And I will continue to love you
long after all this has died
and been reborn
and we are nothing more
than a pair of reincarnated eyes.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead and LOVE. What are you saving all this love for â€� death?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I have died at the ripe age of twenty.
Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint me.

I have died at the mature age of ninety.
Smile, for my life was more than satisfying.

I have died suddenly—out of the blue.
Smile, for I didn't have to fall ill before you.

I have died from a long illness.
Smile, for I had the chance to say goodbye.

I did not want to leave this Earth.
But smile, for I am still here among you.

Why are you crying?
Can you not see I am smiling?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“How can you say it was all a lie?â€� I ask, just above a whisper. “Matt was my best friend. I loved him that way always. ‘We have to look out for her.â€� That was the last thing he said to me alone. And then he died. What was I supposed to do, Frank? Tell me?”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

“He overheard the director talking to one of the cameramen. The cameraman was explaining that he couldn’t get a good long shot on the exterior because someone had set up a fake graveyard right in the plaza.
“Kids just playing around, I guess, but it’s morbid; we’ll have to get rid of it, maybe bring in some sod to—�
“No,� Albert said.
“We’re almost ready for you,� the director assured him.
“That’s not a fake graveyard. Those aren’t fake graves. No one was playing around.�
“You’re saying those . . . those are actually . . .�
“What do you think happened here?� Albert asked in a soft voice. “What do you think this was?� Absurdly, embarrassingly, he had started to cry. “Those are kids buried there. Some of them were torn apart, you know. By coyotes. By . . . by bad people. Shot. Crushed. Like that. Some of those kids in the ground there couldn’t take it, the hunger and the fear . . . some of those kids out there had to be cut down from the ropes they used to hang themselves. Early on, when we still had any animals? I had a crew go out and hunt down cats. Cats and dogs and rats. Kill them. Other kids to skin them . . . cook them up.�
There were a dozen crew people in the McDonald’s. None spoke or moved.
Albert brushed away tears and sighed. “Yeah. So don’t mess with the graves. Okay? Other than that, we’re good to go.”
― Michael Grant, Light

“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He was always worrying about me â€� even when we were kids. If I scraped my knee or fell off my bike, he was the first one to help me up and make sure Mom got a Band-Aid.â€�
“I remember.� I smile. “He was the quintessential big brother.�
“He was. But that’s just it � he’s not here to protect me anymore, Anna. And you don’t have to be, either. I know I let stuff get crazy. I didn’t mean to be like that � it just kind of happened. You couldn’t have changed that. I � it was something I had to go through myself.�
My throat tightens. “I felt like I let him down,� I say. “All that stuff with smoking and Johan and Jake � I didn’t take care of you. I couldn’t even keep that one simple promise.�
“Anna, my brother died. There’s no way you could protect me from that. It’s up to me, now. I let him down. I let me down.”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

“Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorry who tried to turn a wish into a memory.”
― John Kramer, Blythe

“Before some people die physically, the soul is dead in the past.”
― Sajal Ahmed

“People are born in the past,... most people will say that they are living in the present?! But it's not possible, just saying "I'm living in the present", there is milliseconds like 1.,2.,3.,4.,5 and seconds which are 1..,2..,3..,4..,5..,6..,7... so you probably won't live in the present even and in now... YOu live in "Bowl" let's said it??
Or I will call it like this, you die in the future... what's now is the future you have died there or will die!”
― Deyth Banger

“And in this moment of pale dawn in the hours before we leave California, I finally realize what has been the hardest thing for me about Matt’s death. It isn’t that I lost a brother, like Frankie, or a son, like Aunt Jayne and Uncle Red. The hardest thing is that I’ll never know exactly what I lost, how much it should hurt, how long I should keep thinking about him. He took that mystery with him when he died, and a hundred thousand one-sided letters in my journal wouldn’t have brought me any closer to the truth than I was the night I pressed my fingers to the sea glass he wore around his neck and kissed him back.
For over a year, the letters were my only connection to him; the only evidence that I didn’t imagine our brief time as other. When I first saw my journal helplessly floating on the waves, I felt a loss so immediate and overwhelming it was like being back in the hospital lobby when the doctor told us they couldn’t fix him. One minute, the journal was in my hands, soft and familiar and real; the next minute, it was gone.
Just like Matt.
And just like Matt, I need to let it go.”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

“Men die several times in life. The time to lose the first lover. After getting married, it is time to lose his wife in old age.”
― Sajal Ahmed, Maxim Maxim

“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really—which meant I guess that he was still living, too.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace.”
― Deyth Banger

“Baby human died, baby cat died yesterday... dead is part of our life beyond and above us!”
― Deyth Banger

“If you have any questions for Jesus Christ it is only because you were not paying attention when he said "It is finished; I died for you on the cross." John 19:30.”
― Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

“So just over a year ago, there was this guy. I really liked him. I mean really â€� since I was a kid.â€�
“Did Frankie know him?�
“The three of us were best friends. We basically grew up together.�
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“Very. So anyway, last year on my birthday, he finally kissed me.� Sam stays quiet, focused on his feet taking off and landing against the sand. It feels strange to tell him about this for so many reasons, but the words are coming too fast for me to stop, even if I want to. “We started hanging out all the time �
even more than before. Every night. Only we didn’t know how to tell Frankie, because we didn’t want her to freak or feel left out or whatever.�
“Makes sense,� Sam says.
“He thought it would be better if he told her himself, so I promised him that I wouldn’t say anything. But before he could talk to her about it, he–� I almost choke on the word, holding my hand against Sam’s arm to stop our forward motion along the shore.
“What did he do?� Sam asks.
“He just â€� he â€� I’m sorry. Wait.â€� The words of this story have passed a thousand times from my hand to the pages of my journal, but never from my lips to the ears of another living soul. I take a few deep breaths before I’m able to meet Sam’s eyes and say it. “He died, Sam.”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

“First off,â€� he said, “I want to say I’m sorry about E.Z. He was a good kid. He didn’t deserve…â€� For a moment he almost lost it as a surge of emotion welled up from nowhere. “I’m sorry he died.â€�
Someone sobbed loudly.
“Look, I’m going to get right to it: we have three hundred and thirty-two…I’m sorry, three hundred and thirty-one mouths to feed,� Sam said. He placed his hands on his hips and planted his feet wide apart. “We were already pretty bad off for food supplies. But after the attack by the Coates kids…well, it’s not pretty bad off, anymore, it’s desperate.�
He let that sink in. But how much were six-and eight-year-olds really grasping? Even the older kids looked more glazed than alarmed.
“Three hundred and thirty-one kids,� Sam reiterated, “And food for maybe a week. That’s not a long time. It’s not a lot of food. And as you all know, the food we have is awful.�
That got a response from the audience. The younger kids produced a chorus of gagging and retching sounds.
“All right,â€� Sam snapped. “Knock it off. The point is, things are really desperate.”
― Michael Grant, Hunger

“ Dong.
Dong.
Dong.
The third toll of the church bells hovered in the air, and everything became still. Someone in the village had died. Valerie froze.
Dong.
A forth toll shattered the silence. The world split open, exposing a raw inside.
Valerie and Peter looked at each other first in confusion, then in awful understanding.
The fourth bell meant only one thing: Wolf attack.
She had never heard the fourth bell except for the time she and Peter had rung it themselves.
With those bells, Valerie knew.
Life would never be the same,”
― Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood

“For Lucie," Peter said quietly, the flame of a gilded saint's candle fluttering in his hand."
"Leave."
Peter had anticipated this reaction and was prepared. He cleared his throat. "I'm paying my respects," he said, still trying to be polite. The woman was grieving for her daughter.
"I can guess the reason you're here. I've just lost one daughter," she said, her hand on the door. "I won't lose another."
"Wait,"
"She's all I have left," she said. "And you have nothing to offer her."
Peter knew that she was right, that Valerie deserved better. But he could not give her up.
"I have a trade. The same one as your husband."
"I know what a woodcutter earns."
Peter began to protest, but Suzette stopped him. "Henry Lazar is her only hope for a better life."
Peter looked into Suzette's anguished eyes, her words hitting him somewhere deep. It sank in: He could not give Valerie a good life.
"If you love her," Suzette said, her voice cracking, "you'll leave her alone.”
― Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood

“Someone died today. Someone was born today. It's not just a day—it's a moment.”
― Lana M. H. Wilder

“Did Mother know? That I, too, needed her my entire life?

-Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mother”
― Kyung-Sook Shin

“What matters is not how we died but how we lived.”
― Henry Johnson Jr

“It is less that you are an adversary and more that you are someone with an opinion that (although frightening to me) might in some way enrich my own. And if I raise myself to being a partner with you on this mutual journey of ours, and if I refuse to bow to the posture of being a frightened adversary as you intersect my journey with a journey different than my own, we can profoundly change what we would have otherwise both died wrestling over.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The most important lesson to learn from history is, everybody died.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I love your life because you want others to love your life. I love your life because you love your life.I love your life because you do not apply perfume after bath.I love your life because your face shines. I love your life because I love my life.I love your life because you are black like me.I love your life because you are white as I was.I love your life because you have all the races and tones and tastes that I had one day.I love your life because I died for it.I love your life because I live for it.I love your life for feeling love for the nature of love.I love your life because I love the water.I love your life because I love enjoying it in the bath.I love your life because I love to push your wheelchair.I love your life because you give me wheels.I love your life because I want to love I love your life because you sin against me today and I love your life because you forgive me in front of the mirror. I love your life because I love lying down with you. I love your life because I love your everyday meal. I love your life because you got me used to love your life. I love your life because you conquer yourself every day. I love your life because Jesus is ahead. I love your life because you identify with the good and the evil of your life. I love your life.”
― Alan Maiccon