Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

A coffin with wheels would make a great shopping cart. I’ll bet a hollowed-out body would hold a lot of soup.


Live life while you have it; the fact that you have it is highly improbable, the fact that you will lose it is guaranteed.

The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams.

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?