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“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”
“Life is but a dream for the dead.”
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”
“Jacob studied the iron graveyard, where every vehicle was its own gravestone. He drove slowly through, as if he was afraid to wake the dead. That was not it though. The general made it clear that t...”
“You gotta take chances in this life or you're alreadydead.”
“That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.”
“You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?”
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
“To don't forget and marriage, the happiness is the from 20 up to 30% out of the 100% the other percentage is anger, and very negative sides. So far most people are dead.”
“It's when you sit alone,Or lay in your bed, That we will be watching,Waiting,Until you get scared.Then we will come,A scratch and a chill,For you will feel goosebumps,Look at the windowsill!Did you...”
“Is there any hope for the dead?”
“There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down...”
“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”
“Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.”
“...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...”
“There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It wont complain. ”
“He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and killed, in her heart if not with her voice. God's reply had been that due to the high volume of cal...”
“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
“One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether...”
“As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.”
