David Levithan Quotes

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

"Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead." She said it lightly, amused, and he peered up at her. Had she just made a joke? She smiled. Smiled. He did, too. Amazed, he felt it happening, as if her smile had triggered a reflex in him. "Dull sounds nice," he said, letting his eyes flutter closed. "Maybe I can catch up on my reading."

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Death means you are in the third person.

Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

After death there is nothing.

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.