The First to Die at the End

by Adam Silvera

I urge you to not concern yourselves with how we know about the deaths and instead focus on how you’ll live your life. Your final destination may be closer than you think.

Freaking out about death every minute isn’t a good life, and yet, tons of people are freaking out about death every minute.

Freedom should be freeing, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be heartbreaking.

I’d rather be planets apart as long as she’s still breathing on the other side of the galaxy.

but I don’t know if I can orbit around someone this beautiful and not just fall in love, stay in love, and die in love.

It’s not fair how someone can do everything right and still be hurt because someone else does one thing wrong.

“I understand that the person who gets the Death-Cast call isn’t the only one dying. If you really hold someone in your heart, you die too.”

Life doesn’t care how young you are. It forces you to grow up anyway.

“Here’s the truth no one ever wants to admit when death is on the horizon, or when you’re deep in that grief—as long as you keep existing, you’ll keep breathing, and if you’re breathing, one day you’ll start living again.”

want to make great memories. Something to look back on whenever existing seems hard.”

I write short stories because I am one. I wish I was a novel. Breaths away from midnight, I know my final chapter is close. I look up at Valentino, wondering what life could’ve offered if I had more pages in me.

Maybe this is the biggest advantage to how life was lived before—you don’t spend any time grieving yourself when you’re not expecting to even die in the first place.

A parent shouldn’t love you only through childhood,

Life shouldn’t be about to end before someone begins living.

Goodbyes are the most possible impossible because you never want to say them, but you’d be stupid not to when given the chance.”

“Belief is less about what you say and more about what you feel.

I’m lucky to not only know you but to call you my son.

Of course, life is never guaranteed, no matter how healthy you are.

How as long as you keep existing and breathing that you’ll eventually live again.