Now that I'm dead I know everything. This is what I wished would happen, but like so many of my wishes it failed to come true. I know only a few factoids that I didn't know before. Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

(Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad, 2005)

Charles Bramwell Brockley was travelling alone and without a ticket on the 14.42 from London Bridge to Brighton. The Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin in which he was travelling teetered precariously on the edge of the seat as the train juddered to a halt at Haywards Heath. But just as it toppled forward towards the carriage floor it was gathered up by a safe pair of hands.

(Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things, 2016)
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My right-hand neighbor thinks I'm crazy, so she brings me cheese.

(aus: Kathy Reichs, Two Nights, 2017)

Phil's first thought when the bullet hit him was, Oh come on.
Some of his deaths had been easy and peaceful - in his sleep, just drifting off. He knew that was true. He was sure that was true. But those were never the ones he remembered.

(Steven Brust & Skyler White, The Skill of our Hands, 2016)

There are some parts of space where even the human heart, eternally optimistic, finds it hard to feel itself welcome.

(Diane Duane, Dark Mirror, 1993)

I was still getting over being dead, and let me tell you, that's a comeback.

(Joe R. Lansdale, "Rusty Puppy", 2016

A hotel room in Sao Paulo is the third worst place in the world in which to go into cardiac arrest.

(aus: Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels - A Sin du Jour Affair, Book 1, 2015)
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