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Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.


Virgil

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But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
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My mother loves my dad.

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"...
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the wate...
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that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
h...
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slowly rises
from behind my ear

new lines, new countries
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I narrowed my eyes at him. “Not this time...
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he whom I loved, as if he should...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A WISH

Sometimes I wish
that he will live
and I will see him.

But m...
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(is this why she joined them?)
I feel so-
...
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“Yes?”

I can hear him breathing.

“Thank...
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“What’s Kismet?”
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�...
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I look at Max and nod towar...
VICTORIA SCOTT death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
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SARAH DESSEN Yaicha runs.

He sits down, tired,
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Eyes still closed he chuckled. "I'm not shaving until our parents let us da...
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I still.

"I can't stomach your p...
TAHEREH MAFI In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical deat...
R. ALAN WOODS For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

If t...
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"What?" I ask.

"Leave the distri...
SUZANNE COLLINS Those who
disrespect you
with their mouth
don't deserve
your ear.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES They don't live here. They live in Heaven.'
Where's that?'
I don't know,' I said. 'Enos sa...
JERRY SPINELLI When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.'

Personally, I...
MARKUS ZUSAK CHOOSE WISELY'
Birth wasn't your choice,
and neither shall death be.
But the way you...
MADDY MALHOTRA I wouldn’t know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?'

'But the...
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To Molly Pratt, says Jack.
Ike scowls at him. W...
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VERONICA ROTH If you ask me to kiss you, I will,” he says.
His fingers stroke the inside of my wrists, and ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS Each night I am nailed into place
and forget who I am.
Daddy?
That's another kind of...
ANNE SEXTON everyone always says that Lord Findleshanks is really a woman. Did you ever look at him closely? He ...
ELOISA JAMES I ope ya don't mind, Charlie, but I borrowed one a ya effs.'
'Ya did?'
'Yeah.' he smiled. ...
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when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you l...
KAMAND KOJOURI This Stone

He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looki...
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"He looked lik...
SEVENTHSWAN He says, "Keats for my Keats. Look inside."
I gently open the cover. Inside, written in pencil,...
JILLIAN DODD We're not really intruding," he called down. "This is all a big misunderstanding."
"Stop right ...
DEREK LANDY The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people-
those who live to dream
and ...
MUNIA KHAN he placed his hands
on my mind
before reaching
for my waist
my hips
or my l...
RUPI KAUR See, I have dated death
and decided
he was not
the man for me.
KARA PETROVIC You love strapping me in, don’t you?”
“In any form,” he says, a wicked grin playing on...
E.L. JAMES ADAM AND EVE, sitting in Paradise, chatting:
"If we could only open the gate and leave," says E...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out.
"Long-term or short-term?" ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK But...you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I ...
LIBBA BRAY You’re dangerous,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you make me believe in the impossibl...
SIMONE ELKELES You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face
IAN FLEMING I think you're beautiful," an old man at the counter - one of our Sunday night fixtures - says.
SARAH OCKLER and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off...
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I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive

...
JON BON JOVI God does not DEMAND
What He does not COMMAND
One these last DAYS
Do what God SAYS...
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just to please you or appease you,
inside a crowd five b...
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SUZANNE COLLINS You dress to impress," I said approvingly.
"No, Angel." He leaned in, his teeth softly grazing ...
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says damn he is tougher
than me :)
SHIVANGI LAVANIYA I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait wi...
VERONICA ROTH Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.

Am not ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!
RICK RIORDAN I kick him in the face point blank with my high heel.
He wasn't expecting that.
The Angel ...
SUSAN EE Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going --
Two simp...
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ILONA ANDREWS What are you really studying?"
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Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah...
JAMES HOWE (Sid's suicide note:)
WE HAD A DEATH
PACT
I HAVE TO KEEP
MY HALF OF THE
BARGAIN...
SID VICIOUS He is being nibbled to death by ducks.

--More Later, Less the Same
JAMES TATE Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he could STEPHANIE PERKINS I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
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JANDY NELSON Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky. Blin...
TAHEREH MAFI since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never whol...
E.E. CUMMINGS HERMIA
God speed fair Helena! whither away?

HELENA
Call you me fair? that fair ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You know I love you," I whispered in his ear.
"I know," he whispered back, turned, I pulled my ...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY Hunter woke suddenly. A noise.
It was a noise unlike anything he’d ever heard before. Close! ...
MICHAEL GRANT Uncle Mort glanced at Pandora, then back at the Juniors. "Okay, kids. Brace yourselves. And try not ...
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Our noses almo...
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VIRGIL To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.
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