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    Rick Riordan
    “Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
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    Rick Riordan
    “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: death, greek, humor, mythology, percy-jackson, sorry
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    Guillermo del Toro
    “What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”
    ― Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy: The Art of the Movie
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    Cassandra Clare
    “to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: destruction, love
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    Cassandra Clare
    “It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: humor, jace-wayland, sarcasm
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    Steven Moffat
    “Demons run when a good man goes to war
    Night will fall and drown the sun
    When a good man goes to war

    Friendship dies and true love lies
    Night will fall and the dark will rise
    When a good man goes to war

    Demons run, but count the cost
    The battle's won, but the child is lost”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who
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    Steven Moffat
    “We're all stories, in the end.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: amy-pond, doctor-who, eleven, steven-moffat, stories
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    Steven Moffat
    “Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who
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  • #9
    “Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
    ― Garth Nix, Sabriel
    tags: destiny, path, questioning
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    Quentin R. Bufogle
    “I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.”
    ― Quentin R. Bufogle
    tags: 72-virgins, atheism, jesus, nuclear-holocaust, reincarnation, religious-dogma, white-house
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    Tyler Perry
    “Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.”
    ― Tyler Perry Author Don't Make a Black Woman Take of her Earrings
    tags: advice, freedom, healing, life, life-lessons, motivation, past-lives, self-help, sins, skeletons, wisdom
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    Terry Pratchett
    “We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
    tags: death, gallows-humor, humor, laughing
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    Markus Zusak
    “Even death has a heart.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, life
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    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
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    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: death, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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    Markus Zusak
    “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, war
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  • #19
    “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
    ― Thomas Campbell
    tags: death, epitaph, immortality, memory, remembrance
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    Terry Pratchett
    “He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: death, humor
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    Cassandra Clare
    “No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: brb-crying, cassandra-clare, clockwork-princess, death, dying, i-can-t-even, mortality, omg-my-feels, the-infernal-devices
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Dying
    Is an art, like everything else.
    I do it exceptionally well.
    I do it so it feels like hell.
    I do it so it feels real.
    I guess you could say I have a call.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
    tags: death
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    Rick Riordan
    “Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: attacked, death, delaying, humor, leo, the-mark-of-athena
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “Did you really want to die?"
    "No one commits suicide because they want to die."
    "Then why do they do it?"
    "Because they want to stop the pain.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star
    tags: intent, pain, suicide
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: martyrdom, suicide
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    “Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.”
    ― Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
    tags: depression, suicide
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    David Mitchell
    “People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: death, guilt, selfishness, suffering, suicide
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    Terry Pratchett
    “You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
    IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
    'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
    IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
    'What if she cuts herself?'
    THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: children, death, discworld, hogfather, humor, humour, important-lessons, lessons, swords
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: discworld, humor, humour, teaching
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”
    “Sir?”
    “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”
    “Sir?”
    “That’s practically zen.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
    tags: discworld, feet-of-clay, prachett, sam-vimes, samuel-vimes, terry-pratchett, zen
    195 likes



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