“'Does it hurt?' The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. 'Dying? Not at all,' said Sirius. 'Quicker and easier than falling asleep.'”— JK Rowling, amazon.com
“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace, which is as different from what we call knowing it, as the vision of waters upon the earth is different fro…”— George Eliot, amazon.com
“Nora Ryan could only see part of the room. Sometimes something looked familiar, a face, an object, something. But it didn't look the way it used to. The space of her world had changed. She could hear talking; she heard the doctor saying that her right side was paralyzed and that she could not feel a…”— James Thomas Farrell, amazon.com
“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“Barely time to register the staggering beauty, and here it is. The separation.”— Lauren Groff, amazon.com
“I must keep quiet for a little space and then walk very slowly along that bright sand of pain, toward that blue, blue wave. What bliss there is in blueness. I never knew how blue blueness could be. What a mess life has been. Now I know everything. Coming, coming, coming to drown me. There it is. How…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com