Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded — Brandy Heineman, Whispers in the Branches
Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded — Brandy Heineman, Whispers in the Branches
Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded — Brandy Heineman, Whispers in the Branches
Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded — Brandy Heineman, Whispers in the Branches
Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded — Brandy Heineman, Whispers in the Branches
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Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded away. It wheedled into her mind and her words, leaving a humid vapor around her heart and a thick fuzzy taste on her tongue.

— Brandy Heineman, Whispers in the Branches
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More “Death and dying” Quotes

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come... — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly — Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says y — Banksy
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying — Gerard Way
That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know o — Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75. — Benjamin Franklin (attributed, not found in any major work, fake)
The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived. — Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there — Terence McKenna
Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death — Jhonen Vásquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. — Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not k — Socrates