„Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead.”“Of course he’s dead. He’s a skeleton.“

— Derek Landy

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„Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead.""No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead.""Have you checked? I could kick him if you want.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Well, I hate to tell you this," she said, "but your friend is an asshole.""He's not my friend," said Simon. "And I couldn't agree with you more, actually."-Maia & Simon about Jace, pg.49-“
— Cassandra Clare
„Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.“
— Derek Landy
„You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman…'You never can tell…' he answered.'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!“
— Mikhail Bulgakov
„Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.“
— Rick Riordan