You're not going to die?" "Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing thro... CARRIE UNDERWOOD You know, honey, Natalie's expecting her second." I arched my eyebrows at my mother, not follo... RACHEL VINCENT I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Helen’s secretary’s phone was ringing off the hook as Clavier and I passed through the antechamb... NELL STARK So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me... SUZANNE COLLINS (I am usually)looking through people's old relics and old letters from maybe someone who was in the ... DOUG SCHMITT If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my ho... STEPHEN DOBYNS Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and ... NAOMI WATTS Is this the end of all the endings? My broken bones are mending With all these nights we'r... TAYLOR SWIFT I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Oh, my god," Augustus said. "I can't believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes." JOHN GREEN His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his dam... SANDRA BROWN A black raven flew past me and landed on the back of the couch. Roman slapped his hand over his... ILONA ANDREWS I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely ... SHARON CREECH I wish I could break this window. Step through it. But I can't break this window. I can't even find ... COURTNEY SUMMERS A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ra... HOLLY BLACK There's obviously something wrong with him and it's hard not to feel a little bit sorry for him. Tha... TONY CASE Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's onl... TAMORA PIERCE So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a min... DOUGLAS ADAMS The noisy jay swoops by and reviles me, he complains of my meow and my malingering. I too... HENRY N. BEARD The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message ... MATT BERNINGER The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films... VINCENT CASSEL Saying of the Prophet Accusations Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die... IDRIES SHAH The cost of police services are not going to go down. They are going to go through the roof. BRIAN A. CHAMPAIGN I'm not doing too good right now. The water's rising pretty fast. I got a hammer and an ax and a cro... CHRIS ROBINSON I think that what people want is for government to function... not through temper tantrums and sayin... JOHN CORNYN For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Hanged" I hung myself today. Hanged? Whatever, the point is I hanged myself today and I’... BO BURNHAM We're going to die. We're going to die..." "We're not going to die," he barks. "Do YOU want to ... JULIE REECE I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. ... DAWNA MARKOVA For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am w... JENNIFER NIVEN Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. Bu... MELINA MARCHETTA I need to pull away from this - She gestured between them languidly - "because When I'm with you, I ... LOUISA EDWARDS So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th... DAVID LEVITHAN I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s somethi... CECELIA AHERN Falling from the sky like the rain, And I fly and sing like the little birds..., Movemen... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Of course Steve McNair is not going to get paid like Tom Brady and Michael Vick, but so what? But he... PHIL SIMMS There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries f... MENCIUS I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three ... BUDDY GUY I had the poster of 'Hairspray' right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron... DOVE CAMERON The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am goi... KAY HUTCHISON I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance ... LEO TOLSTOY I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my gri... RICK RIORDAN I just saw her eyes roll back and her head going like this. And the mom was very hysterical, poor th... ERNESTINE MENDOZA What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by. Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I. I... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Kate is going to die. It took me a long time to be able to say that. We all are going to die, when y... JODI PICOULT Kid,” Richard said wearily, “I am not in the mood. I haven’t slept in thirty-six hours, my sis... RACHEL CAINE I started this last year when I was called up for the first time. I like doing it myself. Opening Da... BRANDON WATSON Slowly the truth is loading I'm weighted down with love Snow lying deep and even Stru... DAVID GRAY By the black rood of Waltham! he roared, "if any knave among you lays a finger-end upon the edge of ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I am here because there is no refuge, Finally, from myself, Until I confront myself in the eye... RICHARD BEAUVAIS As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I... CHARLIE CHAPLIN I went for some shots that I'm usually not going for. So, I think the only thing I have to do in the... IVAN LJUBICIC You must live a very free life." "Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky t... SAM STARBUCK I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying. WOODY ALLEN I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to
achieve immortality through not dyin... JOSEPH ADDISON I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. WOODY ALLEN I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. WOODY ALLEN I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve
it through not dying. WOODY ALLEN I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed... TOBE HANSON This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, ar... MAGGIE STIEFVATER -Are you nervous to meet my family? -No, not really.They're either going to like me or they wo... JACOB CHANCE I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to ... ALEXIS HALL IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED! NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i... NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste... NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you... NOT SURE Because I was dying. And Warner could’ve let me die. He was angry and hurt and had ever... TAHEREH MAFI I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some... RAMI MALEK Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm n... JAROMIR JAGR I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate ... ROBERT GOOLRICK I feel like this is more of an open, optimistic record, but there is a theme of mortality that float... BEN GIBBARD I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know th... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM And opening my eyes I am afraid of course to look--this inward look that society scorns-- St... ANNE SEXTON Wow," she breathed. "I know, right? Hung like a horse." "If you're really nice-and you liv... J.R. WARD But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing... BOB DYLAN I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrific... LEO TOLSTOY I want to see the front of you.” “That’s what all the girls say.” “Do you expect... J.R. WARD I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light... PHILIPPA GREGORY
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He rolled his head back, sable hair falling down on his shoulders. "With ... ILONA ANDREWS Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a lit... ILONA ANDREWS You'll lose." "What makes you so sure?" "You have no discipline. All you do is tear down s... ILONA ANDREWS I know you'll tell me to fuck off, but I think Curran loves you. Truly loves you. And I think you lo... ILONA ANDREWS Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim. ILONA ANDREWS You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach eva... ILONA ANDREWS I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it t... ILONA ANDREWS Rene, you want us to find you-don't-know-who and to retrieve his you-don't-know-what for you-won't-t... ILONA ANDREWS If the lot of you survives, Curran will flay the skin off your backs," Doolittle said. "That's ... 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ILONA ANDREWS I flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him. 'What's this?' ILONA ANDREWS If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things,and then they would replace me... ILONA ANDREWS When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me a... ILONA ANDREWS You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with hi... ILONA ANDREWS He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to ma... ILONA ANDREWS You will not pass!” Roman thundered. Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf. ILONA ANDREWS I'll be busy for the next eight weeks, so let's set this for November 15th. MENU I wan... ILONA ANDREWS No more tubs for me." I jumped off the bed and pulled on a pair of Pack sweats. "They make me lose a... 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ILONA ANDREWS Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I wan... ILONA ANDREWS Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can. ILONA ANDREWS Your sword is made out of your grandmother’s bones?” “Okay, I see how it sounds weird whe... ILONA ANDREWS Have you ever met someone and felt… I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having somet... ILONA ANDREWS And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it. ILONA ANDREWS If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all th... ILONA ANDREWS Estene aleera hesaad de viren aneda ." And now, you are forever mine. ILONA ANDREWS What’s this ” “A needle.” “What should I do with it ” He’d walked right into... ILONA ANDREWS Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute. ILONA ANDREWS Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip ... ILONA ANDREWS Curran shrugged and pulled me back to him. 'You don't pick the family you're born into. You pick the... ILONA ANDREWS Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you ... ILONA ANDREWS Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Drivin... ILONA ANDREWS You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep." "I only did it once." "On... ILONA ANDREWS You’re taking a nap? Come on, Kate, I need you for this fight. Stop lying around.” “You m... ILONA ANDREWS Aha! So I’m not crazy.” “You are most definitely crazy,” Derek said. “But in a derang... ILONA ANDREWS I think you’re confused as to the nature of our relationship. You and I, we don’t get along. You... ILONA ANDREWS I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd l... ILONA ANDREWS Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. 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When I can get out of my own way. And the rest of the time? The rest o... ILONA ANDREWS It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I d... ILONA ANDREWS Who is there with you?" "Raphael" Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in... ILONA ANDREWS Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your lif... ILONA ANDREWS We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reaso... ILONA ANDREWS He glued the chair to my ass." Silence. "Is it still...attached?" "I can't get it off... ILONA ANDREWS Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferre... ILONA ANDREWS We don't need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns. How do you know he is a sex fiend? He i... ILONA ANDREWS Would you like to work here with me? We have no clients and the pay is shit. ILONA ANDREWS Aha," Andrea said. "I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'. ILONA ANDREWS What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after... ILONA ANDREWS I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I ... ILONA ANDREWS Are you sure you know where you're going?" Andrea frowned. "Would you like me to pull over and ... ILONA ANDREWS It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.” “I’m outraged!” I snarled.... ILONA ANDREWS I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be kill... ILONA ANDREWS I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board ILONA ANDREWS The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make ... ILONA ANDREWS Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods.... ILONA ANDREWS Some people had attack dogs. 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