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Shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first. — Khaled Hosseini

Life's a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who'd die for us. — Crystal Woods

Death by family silver, I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind. — Alan Bradley

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) — Christopher Hitchens

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. — Patrick Marber

You never did master a leer.
- Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree — Patricia Sprinkle

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. — Robert Breault

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. — Peter Kreeft

Hot afternoon
the squeak of my hands
on my daughter's coffin — Lenard D. Moore

I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death. — Mike Heil

A will can save one's family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely). — Henrietta Newton Martin

There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true. — F.K. Preston

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained. — R.W. Patterson

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. — John Osborne

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. — John Hanning Speke

There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there. — Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Where are the blossoms of those summers!-fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of the spirits. — James Fenimore Cooper

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society. — Atul Gawande

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home. — Doc Hastings

I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life. — J.D. Salinger

Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it? — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement. — E.J. Koh

I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over. — Dan Barker

I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family, — Gillian Flynn

A day without family is like a year without rain — Susan M Bisaha

Family! ... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death. — Margaret Mahy

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death. — Misty Upham

You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be. — Betty Smith

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P.D. James

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. — Erma Bombeck

My dad was nothing but a bingo call. — Ripley Patton

In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies. — Marcus Luttrell

If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world. — E.J. Koh

Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat! — Robert A. Heinlein

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. — Kit Bond

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss. — Brian Spellman

Private,' he said firmly. 'Family matter. Go have a drink.'
'Whose family?'
'A death in yours, if you insist. — Robert A. Heinlein

But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that. — David Baldacci

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience. — F.K. Preston

You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road — Salena Godden

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it. — Viraj J. Mahajan

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats. — Henry Thomas

You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you. — E.J. Koh

Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton. — Stacy Bierlein

Who we are takes generations to create and doesn't end with death. — Stanley Siegel

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family. — George Carlin

That's the hope, isn't it? To see your family in your time of dying. — Saim .A. Cheeda

Harry ... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents ... — J.K. Rowling

God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay. — Shannon L. Alder

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. — Sam Sheppard

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget. — Heather Dorff

War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

So, what you're basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family. — John Zakour

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality. — Rukhsar Din

Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal. — Samuel Scoville Jr.

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi? — Lionel Shriver

Katharine: I can't keep up with you!
Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself.
- Death on the Family Tree — Patricia Sprinkle

Blood is family. Blood is pain. Blood is death. — Richelle Mead

She wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are. — Charles Bukowski

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane. — F.K. Preston

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

Danny couldn't remember how many times he had driven down this particular stretch of highway. — Mike Mehalek

Fate doesn't care about family. When the time is up, she nicks at the thread — Cecilia Robert

One family
we dwell in Him,
One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death. — Charles Wesley

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side. — Edwidge Danticat

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived. — Sage Steadman

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family. — George Washington

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us. — Aravind Adiga

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. — Orlando Bloom

He nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids; — Robin Becker

After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. — Olive Ann Burns

Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone! — Nikita Dudani

Together we shared a bond not even death would violate. — Dee Remy

Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off. — Melanie Finn

To lose someone after you've loved them was tougher than losing them when you've never even met them. — Diyar Harraz

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. — Keith Henson

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore. — Daisy Whitney

When life gets tough, just love it a bit harder. — Mounia Bagha

A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

After all, sisters didn't die, did they? — Erica James

It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person. — Danielle Steel

Families that feel together, heal together. — Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't. — James Agee

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Family will always kill you
some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it. — Tiphanie Yanique

Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships. — Kenneth Eade

Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented. — Birdman

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just ... survive. Outlive me, please. — Tracy Letts

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday. — Jodi Picoult

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother. — Torrey Smith

That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I'd lost my daughter too. — Leslie A. Gordon

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth. — Elisabeth Egan

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship. — Bryant McGill

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen. — Shannon L. Alder

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there. — Lois Lowry

Do what is right and what is good.
Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield. — Michelle Franklin