"Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.""
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

"The dead are way more organized than the living."
— China Miéville (Un Lun Dun)

"The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share."
— Charlaine Harris

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
— Thomas Paine

"There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead Until Dark)

"They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is."
— Charlaine Harris

""I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
"I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
"That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.""
— Charlaine Harris

"When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method of defense seemed ludicrous. I'd be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead and Gone)

"When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think"
— Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay)

"Two turtle doves will show thee
Where my cold ashes lie
And sadly murmuring tell thee
How in tears I did die"
— Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

"Crap.
It's all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn't anybody realize this?"
— K-Ske Hasegawa (Ballad of a Shinigami, Vol. 1)

"Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I thought, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.""
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

"I don't mind dying - it's the business of staying dead that scares the shit out of me."
— R. Geis

""Marcus couldn't believe it. Dead. A dead duck. OK, he'd been trying to hit it on the head with a piece of sandwich, but he tried to do all sorts of things, and none of them had ever happened before. He'd tried to get the highest score on the Stargazer machine in the kabab shop on Hornsey road - nothing. He'd tried to read Nicky's thoughts by staring at the back of his head every maths lesson for a week - nothing. It really annoyed him that the only thing he'd ever achieved through trying was something he hadn't really wanted to do that much in the first place. And anyway, since when did hitting a bird with a sandwich ever kill it? People spend half their lives throwing things at the ducks in Regent's Park. How come he managed to pick a duck that pathetic?""
— Nick Hornby

"I gestured my frustration. “I don’t know. She’s much better already. She wasn’t talking half an hour ago.
Look at her now.”
We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls
hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her.
“Okay,” I said as we turned back. “Bad example.”"
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
— N.H. Kleinbaum (Dead Poets Society)

"And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust."
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive."
— Dean Koontz (Dead and Alive)

"Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat. "
— Emily Dickinson (Poems of Emily Dickenson)

""The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.""
— Cicero

"The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."
— William Faulkner

"All is silent in the halls of the dead." Eddie heard himself in a falling, fainting voice. "All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. Behold the stairways which stand in darkness; behold the rooms of ruin. These are the halls of the dead where spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.""
— Stephen King

""For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man."
"To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service."
"Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!"
-Redd Heart and Vollrath"
— Frank Beddor (Seeing Redd)

"For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person..."
— Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

"Yet I did love thee to the last,
As ferverently as thou,
Who didst not change through all the past,
And canst not alter now."
— George Gordon.Lord Byron

"“There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet.”"
— P.J. Tracy (Dead Run)

"when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow."
— William S. Burroughs

"There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain. "
— Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit)

""All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.""
— Samuel Beckett

"Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright"
— Jerry Garcia

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. "
— Bertrand Russell

"The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence."
— Dean Koontz (Your Heart Belongs to Me)

"That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime."
— Amanda Ashley

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Think about this: You don't know when these people are going to die. They could get into a car today and be killed on the way home. Did they ever hear about Jesus? God has put you in their lives to be His ambassador. You're His megaphone, through which He wants to call out to them to come to Him and be saved."
— Ryan Dobson (Be Intolerant: Because Some Things Are Just Stupid)

"Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men may be coarsened and hardened into a brute by habit. Blood and power intoxicate; coarseness and depravity are developed; the mind and the heart are tolerant of the most abnormal things, till at last they come to relish them. The man and the citizen is lost for ever in the tyrant, and the return to human dignity, to repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

""And each one there has one thing shared;
They have sweated beneath the same sun,
Look up in wonder at the same moon,
And wept when it was all done,
For being done too soon."
"
— -- Neil Diamond.

"What happened to your hand there mate? I was bit! Bit by what? I don't know some crack addict or something I don't know! Well why did you bite you? I don't know I didn't stop to ask! "
— Shaun of the Dead

"What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?"
— Joy Williams

""A large bolt of lightning, a huge wave, we're..."
"Floating??""
— L + H

"But suppose the endlessly dead were to
wake in us some emblem:
they might point to the catkins hanging
from the empty hazel trees, or direct
us to the rain
descending on black earth in early
spring. ---

And we, who always think of happiness
rising, would feel the emotion
that almost baffles us
when a happy thing falls."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies)

""We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
"
— Prof. Keating

"For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
"
— Bhagavad Gita

"When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think."
— N.H. Kleinbaum

"Drop-dead gorgeous is a dime-a-dozen. What we are looking for is drop-dead kind."
— Karen Bennett