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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It began with my father not wanting to see the Last Rabbit, and ended up with me being eaten by a carnivorous plant. It wasn't really what I'd planned for myself.

(aus: Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey - Book 1 The High Road to Saffron, 2009)
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There are things that upset us. That's not quite what we're talking about here, though. I'm thinking rather about those images or words or ideas that drop like trapdoors beneath us, throwing us out of our safe, sane world into a place much more dark and less welcoming.

(Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning - Short Fictions & Disturbances, 2015)

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer's day, a long-running sitcom, one's life and eventually our species. The question for many is not that everything will come to an end, but when, and can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
In the case of a good bottle of wine, probably not much - although the very act of consumption might make one believe otherwise. A well-lazed summer's day should not expect too much of itself either, and sitcoms never die. They simply move to a zombie-like existence in repeat heaven.

(Jasper Fforde, The Woman who died a lot, 2012)