"For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death."

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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."

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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."

"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"

"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."

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"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."

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