"Do you remember," said Leonard McCoy, "when I stole your cadaver?"

(Diane Duane, Doctor's Orders, 1990)
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The thing that surprised him most about dying was how very much it hurt.

(Diane Duane, The Door into Sunset, 1991)
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If Ronnie Wilson had known, as he woke up, that in just a couple of hours he would be dead, he would have planned his day somewhat differently.

(aus: Peter James, Dead Man's Footsteps, 2008)

The wall whispers to him with splintered wooden lips. 'They'll worship you. They'll worship you. They'll worship you...'

(Aus: A Dark so Deadly, Stuart MacBride, 2017)
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My calendar is full of dead people.

(Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways, 2020)
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Es war einer dieser Morgen, an denen er die Krawatte dreimal binden musste, bis die Längen stimmten.

(Martin Suter, Allmen und die Dahlien, 2013

I forget everything between footsteps.

(Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, 2018)