What's it like?""Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant comfort of a loved one's embrace. To sink into that hideous coma, to sink then into death and, perhaps, return to sterile, awful wanderings. All without knowing what it was to love and be loved.That was a tragedy more terrible than becoming a vampire. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129) Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters. An' now his dead, an' that don't matter... Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the only reason anyone knows anything about him at all. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Feathers!" spluttered Sargatanas. "Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret." He said, and drew me closer. "The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>