"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

Mortality, Country, Youth, Death, Aging

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"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

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Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"

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"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."

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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

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"Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud."

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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Explore more quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

"Piper's lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident."

Desire

"Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead."

Present

"It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts."

Mystery

"Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something."

Humor

"It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand. Something that makes them feel strong or clever. It's why they love the ocean."

Love

"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."

Risk

"You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line."

Knowledge

"This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted."

Dream

"But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold anymore and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting."

Celebration

"The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human."

Humanity