death

"I’ll never speak to God again."

"Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it."

"Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die."

"When your family dies, that’s a bummer, but that’s life. When my family dies, it’s a tragedy and the world is unbalanced and biased."

"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going."

"Before I go,"he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love."

"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."

"My coffee gets increasingly better the more I drink and the closer I come to the bottom of the cup, where all the sugar is. I wonder if life is the same way as we approach the end."

"Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill."

"... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life."

"Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."

"Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing."

"It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth."

"My reasons to liveWere my reasons to dieBut at least they were mineNow I've freedom unboundCut the laces of life"

"Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality."

"Because the plan God has for each of our lives isn't always the same plan we have for ourselves, Grace. Sometimes, our deaths have more of an impact than our births. It can inspire people to do great things, even greater than they would have had the deaths not happened at all."

"There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding."

"Of course I want to kill you,"said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to."

"I forgive you,"I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."

"If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it."