“We were real close back then. He was my first kiss, first crush. Before he died, we weren’t as close anymore. I mean, I hadn’t seen him in months and...” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we’ll be on our way, but he’ll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I never thought that she would die until she died. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Not even dying? Or being shot?" she whispers. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha thought a great deal at this time about the dying sage whose voice had stirred thousands, whose voice he had also once heard, whose holy countenance he had also once looked at with awe. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you can tell me all about how your mother died.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I remember you told my mom that your mom died when you were three, Holly said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The hollow rumble of the hard wheels on the concrete floor went around a corner and slowly died away. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The naiads, in pity for him, so bold and so young to die, buried him and carved upon the tomb:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barely breathing, I wait to die in the dirt where they have dumped me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you think this is just about dying,” he said, “but it’s like I keep telling you. When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

College was looking more and more like a place where dreams came to die. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The rich Cuban family Vera had married into still kept the pink slips of their nationalized lands in Cuba, along with high hopes of reclaiming them once Castro was ousted or finally, finally died. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The noise of the machines drowns out the dying. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Boxing is a dying sport. People aren't much interested anymore. They want easy things like television, bowling, car rides. Get yourself a good job. Finish high school. Go at night if you have to." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled it with water and began picking up the dying fish from the mud puddles, putting them in the can, and dumping them in the creek. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Stricken with grief, Rostam hears his son’s dying words: If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Each man has his own reason to die. But if they go on, 1 will go on.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For sooth, I could have killed Father for dying. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t fathom May taking the trouble of dying just so she could go to Ohio. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

How could any species survive the snow if the word for it died out? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to sugarcoat it. If his heart is stressed, he could die,” the doctor said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beggars’ camp fire had died down to embers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took advantage of the noise to creep a few steps closer. “... being ‘yoked to shadow,’ whatever that means,” I heard my father say as the wind died down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are worse ways to die than drowning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later they would all die and find themselves at Minya’s mercy, but while they lived, it was Sarai’s mercy that mattered. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The result was that an estimated four million people died of famine in 1933 in Ukraine alone—an area about the size of all the New England and mid-Atlantic states put together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One stated, “In developing countries, people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis usually die, because effective treatment is often impossible in poor countries.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As the last note dies, Mrs. Spitz walks over to me, and all eyes turn my way. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He’d dated exactly two women after my mother died, maybe five or six dates total, and he’d never tried to hide them from me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I hope he died of pain out in the marsh,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she had forgotten about it, and lived her entire life, and died. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You should have come over. I was dying to get away,” Naomi said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It makes the whole car smell like something died. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That was just a softer way of saying let them die. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I heard he had him a pet snake one time that bit him and the next day the snake died.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We lived here till my wife died,” said the old man half apologetically. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At the end of the book, I was so mad that Anne died, because as she was dying, a part of me was dying with her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

According to my mom I almost died as an infant. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since Henrietta Lacks died decades before I began writing this book, I relied on interviews, legal documents, and her medical records to re-create scenes from her life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But it’s time to surrender ... or the girl dies.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Papa said they generally started out by feeding on the carcass of some deer or cow that had died, then going from there to catching and killing live meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had hiked twenty-six miles that day and thought he had died and gone to heaven when he learned that hot dogs were on the menu. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the mention of dying, a surge of feeling had engulfed him, pushing him beyond anger into an extremity of bewilderment and disgust. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To die by other hands more merciless than mine. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

How would it be, he wondered, to live on a planet with a wife and three children and have them die, leaving you alone with the wind and silence? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not going to feel sorry for her because her parents died in a car crash. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He raised himself and crawled out of the water, grunting with die pain of movement. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it please my lord, who died in my place?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you wish you could have done something to rescue Dad before he died?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Genêt had fled Philadelphia and its epidemic for Manhattan in September, but the passions surrounding him and the Neutrality Act seemed to have died along the way. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Even when his grandmother died—he got the news in the middle of a lecture and kept right on teaching. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nearly all the rest will be dying by the time you read this. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew why the priest put glistening oil on my grandmother’s forehead the night she died. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, the king had died at table, others said, but only because Varys the Spider poisoned him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, that his father would die!—and the road before John be open, as it must be open for others. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin—who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been just a second or two that I stood there, expecting to die, but it felt like an eternity. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"There is more of Rhaegar in you, I think, but even Rhaegar could be slain. Robert proved that on the Trident, with no more than a warhammer. Even dragons can die." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In our living room, the music was dying down as the radio station announced two a.m. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And if they couldn’t do that in five days, Rome would be destroyed, and Hazel’s brother, Nico, would die. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And think of the poor farmer when it doesn’t rain all year: if there wasn’t an average yearly rainfall of 37 inches in this part of the country, all his crops would wither and die.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled at this and said in gasps, whispering, “No, and I would not—let you. For I must die—sometime anyway. But the land is there after me.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There were rumors of cells in the basement where the souls of dead prisoners, prisoners who had died in jail, howled all night. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The red light was dying out fast from the hills and from the windy sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure this is the kind of crush you can die from. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then her mother had died and her father had told her that she must be the lady of Rivemm now, and she had done that too. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dad had died a little more than a year ago. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His mother from the old time, from die time before, would bake it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

That man was one of the fifty-seven people who died in the eruption. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

They lived in marshes and stagnant pools, sucked blood from man and horse alike, and laid their eggs in the dead and dying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was the one people went to when a baby was born or when someone in the community died or when a couple wanted to get married or when someone needed food or money. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Moving back to the fire, he spun among the dying embers on the ground with a graceful motion, gently kicking the larger coals back together. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When the other conversations in the room didn't die down, he cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted, “I know what Ampai was planning!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As Cook’s words die away, I realize I’m holding the press midair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. But based on how many of us died getting here, I wouldn’t like to be one of them right now. Grievers are probably swarming all over them.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Jon ripped off his gaunt let, took die letter, cracked the seal. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know the name of the prisoner who dies in the middle of the night. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saved hundreds of lives, I know I did. But that is very cold comfort. It is the ones I lost that I remember. In my nightmares I see the faces of people who died.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If I thought this would never happen again I would die. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as the last boats crossed the line and the cheering began to die down, an audible murmur began to ripple through the crowd along the shore as a number of realizations clicked into place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bran could hear the squires at their swordplay in the yard below, die ring of steel on steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

How many people had even died in New York City since it’d been around? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Chi-Boy and I stared into the flames of the dying fire, waiting for the old man to continue. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When he died they found him sitting on an old lounge chair still inside the truck. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I plop, sit beside him on the log, watching the dying fire. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

According to the Gospels, Jesus lived and died in what is now Israel. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

You thin\\ it’s so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Had he not done so, most of us would have died in Auschwitz or other camps. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell my parents that I will die like the Abnegation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I would have pulled us into the pool together and died like that, his lips on mine, certain that I loved him and that he loved me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As the sound of her footsteps died away, Jane and Michael looked at each other. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Less than two hours after Guiteau died, an autopsy was performed on his body at the jail by Dr. Daniel Lamb, who had also done the postmortem on James Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A year after his father died, Kim Jong Eun solidified his legitimacy and his hold on power with the successful launch of a three-stage rocket that put a satellite into orbit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The idea of her dying alone in the hospital, suffering painful burns, is too much to bear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I think my father is dying, and now I am out of bounds when I see a familiar face behind our bench. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

How could my father die? she asked the picture silently. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Ahh, there it was—the moment when the pilot had his heart attack his right foot had jerked down on die rudder pedal and the plane had slewed sideways. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigheart, who had died not long after the imposition of allotment, was hailed as the “Osage Moses.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Four brothers dead. A dozen wounded. A third as many as the foe. And we took captives. One died quickly from his wounds, but the other lived long enough to be questioned." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rabbits died of shock, and the vines withered in his garden. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Sure did. Your Great-Grampy JonJon and Uncle Jack grew up there as well, believe it or not. When his mother died, JonJon moved back to that house and raised my daddy in it.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

When someone died without a descendant or proper burial rites, he or she turned into a shave and wandered until a willing host was found. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning when she went back to the hospital, she found more and more people had died from it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The changes are still unfolding and will likely continue until I die. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s slightly better than leaving them to die,” says Paylor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I just about died when Red drove off.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, Kenneth received the news that Alma’s body had rejected the new kidney and she had died earlier that morning. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But then there are stories of white babies dying in arms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Luna’s grandmother had never spoken about the fact that she would die someday. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The flies are so excited and intoxicated that they fall on the pools of blood and die. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"I really do have an appetite," Gregor said to himself sorrowfully, "but not for these things. How these lodgers stuff themselves, and I am dying." The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mom died, he came over a few times, tried to get me back on my board, but the ocean had dried up as far as I was concerned. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

With every atom of my being, I beg this in order that not only may this black boy live, but that we ourselves may not die!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When night came and the women had carried back to the village those who had died on the beach of Coral Cove, there remained only fifteen. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, most of ’em die in the end. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He opened one of the cupboard’s creaking doors: It had already been used as a hiding place for something in a cage that had long since died; its skeleton had five legs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on. Just because I’m getting married doesn’t mean I’m dying. I’m here! We can still share things.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

DAD: I’m sorry your friend died, Veer, but you have to find a time to move on and stop torturing yourself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Knowing Capricorn’s former favorite was to die that night just seemed to add to their fun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If Trina died, he seriously didn’t know if he could keep going. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They prayed for the person who died and they prayed for their spirit. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When they died of old age, they died rich. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“They treated me as if I would die. They wouldn’t give me scissors to cut my beard because they thought I would be suicidal. And they locked me in at night.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom told me stories about when she was a kid, back before her parents died in the plane crash. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"It was rough on morale, but we soldiered on. Besides, he won't die." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And those who were stricken with it fell slowly into an ever deeper dream, and then passed to silence and a deadly cold, and so died. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She shattered without any blood, as if she’d died without ever living. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was supposed to be a different kind of angel, one of those that swoop down from above when peoples die and then lead them up to heaven. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he wonders what happened since Leon Levy died. Maybe this Abelman has some words of advice to a playboy. Read it, Gus. It will be your work for Levy Pants for the week.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bologne, the first mixed-race colonel in the French Army, was thereupon abandoned by all his previous patrons and friends, and died in impoverished obscurity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I could either die after two years or outlive him by a hundred. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the dying light, they walked down a steep slope toward the vehicle. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

No one in the world had ever died before. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already hated all the kids he was building the orphanage for; sometimes I wished they’d all died along with their parents. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he fell dying, Nisus cut down the man who had killed him; then pierced with many darts he too fell dead beside his friend. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she died, it came completely out of the blue, and none of us understood what it meant until it was too late. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When the sun slipped below the horizon, it was not only the day that died and the poor zebra, but my family as well. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In this sense, stars have parents; and, as is sometimes also true for humans, a parent may die in the birth of the child. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moon had a condition where she couldn’t work anymore, but she would rather die than eat some Iranian kid’s teenage cooking. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I think I am dying,” he said, sitting so close to the fire, he almost smothered it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had died years before in an auto accident still hoping that he might come to his senses and become an engineer. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If the nephew dies in chains, these uncles can claim his lands and lordship for themselves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She sat perfectly still before the piano, not touching the keys, while Robert carried her message to Edna at die window. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of our people died along the way and even more died there. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This made die opportunity to study a function of how much money one had. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment of silence, I heard die sizzle of the water as Timothy doused the torch. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Conquering Bear died, a man walked through the village shouting the terrible news. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He lay on the cot watching the lightning flare in die door of the tent. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I repeat the words Muslims say when someone dies and then walk back to my room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted to die, right there on the sidewalk in a city that didn’t care. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After several attempts at speaking, Booth whispered: “Tell Mother, I die for my country.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked real, but I knew she was a ghost because she died at least ten years ago. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But once the person had died and stopped moving, the tree must have slowly wrapped itself around the body and digested it, the very bones leached of nutrients until they vanished. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I did not reply, he said, “I heard the doctor say I will die.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although he died in 1562 at the early age of 39, he made his mark on human biology in two ways. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But after Henry died, it was as if some thread which bound us had been abruptly severed, and soon after we began to drift apart. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a nervous type of laughing, the same kind as that of a landlady we once had after her husband died in a dentist’s chair while he was under gas. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was scared to be alive then, and I’m scared I’m going to die now. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I patted her shoulder and said I was sorry her pa died, but that just made her cry worse. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Against her wishes my father took her to the hospital but somehow it was too late and she died four days later. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They risked their lives to save others, but they didn’t die doing nothing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

If the Nazis had put us right to work, I might have died that day. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie decided that maybe she wouldn’t worry about helping the ghosts dying over and over again in the dining room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The incredible effort of moving the boy to Boston, then watching him die, later struck me as an object lesson in the difficulty of Farmer’s mission, perhaps in its ultimate futility. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe the way Sophia and Precious took care of us when my momma died, because most teenagers would just worry about their boyfriends. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They may ask for a word,” die Tattered Prince had warned them when he handed over the bundle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In die nighttime drills, signalmen lustily flung themselves onto the rocks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the moment I was inside, die place seemed wondrously presentable to me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I wondered what had come over Digger—I’ll deny it till the day I die!—in the past month. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Did she know she was going to die? Was she waiting for us to rescue her?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She wanted everyone to know how her mom would just die if Isabelle wasn’t also a part of the Alpha Omega Toe Jam legacy like her grandmas on both sides. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nan hadn’t been on a motorcycle since Daddy died, but she sure hadn’t settled down any either. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Such a man doesn’t really die,” Adam said, and he was discovering it himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His stomach tightened and rolled and made noise as he looked at the eggs, as if his stomach belonged to somebody else or had seen die eggs with its own eyes and was demanding food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he took this stiff dying hand he did not love it, and even his pity was spoiled with repulsion towards it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Five men were down, dead, or dying by the time Arya reached the back door that opened on the kitchen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One of the French sailors had learned enough Massachusett to inform his captors before dying that God would destroy them for their misdeeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He decided somebody had better say something before they all died in glory. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But in July 1923, before she had enacted these changes, she, too, died of suspected poisoning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He started at the beginning—how Hera had been his babysitter and placed him in the flames; how his mother had died because of Gaea, who had identified Leo as a future enemy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have been surprised if it had died of boredom itself — no company except stupid people drumming their fingers on the glass trying to disturb it all day long. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If one stuck in your hair and stung you, it sent out a chemical message as it died and all who received it were compelled to come and sting and die at the same place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Not to mention most of die coin that we have left.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They flung themselves down in the shadows that lay among die shattered rocks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Presently the sound died away, and I knew he had gone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If he couldn’t hunt he would die and if he were injured badly he would not be able to hunt. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandparents are supposed to die first, but they’re supposed to die of old age. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the food, the heat, the light was wrong, and the man didn’t know what it was.Very quickly over half of them died. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole knew his own body would eventually die and decay and be reduced to dirt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It’s been this inevitable thing that I’ve lived with forever, this awareness that I would die long before Abby and my parents. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

An immortal could never die, but now Gaia would be like her husband, Ouranos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He coughed a few times, then lay down on the floor and died. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell him to move the body farther out after the investigation dies down. I’m not comfortable with it so close to home.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I mean, the thing is, plenty of Indians have died because they were drunk. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath our feet there lay men, crushed, trampled underfoot, dying. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chest was thick and his neck was die size of a small tree trunk. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Males, I thought, always have a chance to live no matter how short their lives, but females, ordinary, ungifted ones, just get soft and die. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, a curse didn’t keep me away. I wanted to come back. I died!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One guy jumps on it and takes the blast, but it’s a killer grenade and everybody dies anyway. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he died he told Deianira to take some of his blood and use it as a charm for Hercules if ever he loved another woman more than her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking for colleagues and friends, William wrote proudly, “Everybody is dying to see you.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They took him to the capital, where he died four days later. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then her daddy die of typhus, and that was the end of that.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Not your relatives. It’s the mother, father and brother of that chap who died. They’ve traveled all the way from New York to see a dying soldier, and you’re the handiest one we’ve got.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The president’s murder gave my teachers and parents and pastor the perfect opportunity to talk with us children about death and dying, about bombings and hatred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband,” the sniffling woman on the other end of the line said, “is dying and it seems that...” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone was busy doing something, and that helped us to forget die terror of the night before. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ammu died in a grimy room in the Bharat Lodge in Alleppey, where she had gone for a job interview as someone’s secretary. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for a child to die is not an occasion for writing a poem here in Kilanga: it isn’t a long enough wait. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had survived the fever, but he might well die out here on the Reaper’s Barge. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He cut a green willow fork and held the fish over die fire until the skin crackled and peeled away and the meat inside was flaky and moist and tender. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Pencey, you either froze to death or died of the heat. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“There was no sound. People, yes, screaming, complaining. But the building seemed to still, hush for half a second. It hit me, ‘We’re going to die.’” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Emma worried that each day’s post would bring the news that her mother or father had died. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As suddenly as it had come the wind died. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold might die, and Book Scavenger might die with him. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She will curse me with her dying breath, but I saw no other way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Kill her? I did not kill her! I do not believe she has died at all! She is doing God’s work in Burgundy as we speak!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then what of his soul, which would one day come to die and stand naked before the judgment bar? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I wished I could of known Grandpa Tweedy’s daddy, but he died of the typhoid in 1867. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“She’s very old and she thinks she is going to die!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Old Great-Uncle Kirke had died and this meant, apparently, that Father was now very rich. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

At that time, early death was commonplace: Families often lost children to disease, and thousands of people wanted to reach out to loved ones who had died in the Civil War. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, they did. It seems your battalion thought you had died during the operation.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She saw rotten pockets where all the cells had popped and died, forming a liquefied spot that was packed with wall-to-wall bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the mother of April’s father, who had died in an accident before April even had a chance to get to know him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the light coming through the side window, die pale green fight from the water, he saw die pilot’s head only it wasn’t the pilot’s head any longer. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was unconscious all the time, and it did not take her very long to die. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Aye, men are dying. More will die before we see Winterfell. What of it? This is war. Men die in war. That is as it should be. As it has always been.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“All right,” Ignatius said grandly as the three girls sank their stubby hands into his smock and started propelling him toward die door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they moved a mile before they were forced to anchor again; sometimes only half a mile; sometimes it seemed the huge dripping anchors barely broke water before the wind died again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine what dying must have felt like for her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

How sad would it be to finally exist if I was just gonna die a few short months later? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This work would not come to fruition until Johannes Kepler drew upon Tycho’s tables to explain the orbits of the planets, years after Tycho had died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even if it was relatively insignificant, it was something, and I needed to do something, like sharks, who die if they don’t swim, which I know about. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Amala had made no contact with them since the day at the hospital but she wondered now if she would be expected to tell Amala if Baby were to die. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most victims of hypothermia die in a much more dopey kind of way, in temperate seasons and with the air temperature nowhere near freezing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But in the roundabout way in which God often works, I did find myself back there . . . some forty years after Mama Lessie’s death and thirty years after Grandaddy had died there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother died when I was three, my old man drank himself to death, and,” he paused and looked towards the church which already loomed ahead of us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most gunshot victims don't die after nine months, and it was surprising that the state was seeking the death penalty in this case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look like he was dying, but Joseph had never known anyone who was that sick. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I expected then, as I still expect today, to die at any time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found three more dead monkeys in Room F. They were dying steadily, a handful every night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news spread like pox through black communities: doctors were doing research on black people, lying to them, and watching them die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had killed him, although through no fault of his, and he cried, “Oh, if I could give my life for yours, or die with you.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our queen is the embodiment of our land. It has been this way since the dawn of time, and it will be so until our last queen dies.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Petra Cotes, dying with laughter, could not resist the temptation of teasing him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, he wouldn’t live shut up in a box. If he couldn’t get out he’d soon die. No, I should let the poor chap go—unless you want to eat him.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The point isn’t your phone dying. Why did you need to cancel, anyway?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Since her parents had died, Lina had come many times to talk to Clary, or just to work silently beside her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She calls the message her “last words,” so she must have known she was about to die. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Michelangelo dying. Even if we saved every Talmud. It’s not worth it.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He knew how to die, just as he knew how to live, Grandfather,” Alba replied. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helps me realize how young she was when she died. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They show the boy from District 10, who must have died this morning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It may be, though, that the medicine worked on women and Mama would have to protect herself and Amala to make sure that only Olanna died or became barren or went mad. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am without a home, forever alienated. Though I am not a nun like you, I also died to the world in coming here.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The doors of die workshop burst open, and Nico was pushed inside, his hands in chains. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You know, when your heart stops and you like, you know, die.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘I feel as if I had swallowed a Newfoundland dog and it had died on me.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From all the available evidence, there seemed to be little doubt that McCandless—rash and incautious by nature—had committed a careless blunder, confusing one plant for another, and died as a consequence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since his other puppy had died, he had always traveled the paths alone. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t know who it was, but before the next noon, I dialed die madam from my own telephone-unlisted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Over there, against die oak. Yes, like that." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He died quietly in his sleep a few days after they visited us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain lions had either died or migrated, and the humans were now facing the same two alternatives. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Old Mr. Westing probably died of a heart attack—or pneumonia—it was drafty in there. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is it so hard to die?” he asked. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was just another one of die “liberal North” actions that didn’t help Harlem to love the white man any. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s the pods, or the fear, or watching Boggs die, but I feel the arena all around me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It’s a scene from my old kitchen, where my mother treated the dying, multiplied by ten, by fifty, by a hundred. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But as they plodded along the dirt road past wide stumpy fields, her last hopes died. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“And maybe you didn’t want to die alone?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"Is it the boy king that's died now?" she shouted down, leaning out over the street. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Those who did not die grew up by the river, watching their mothers leave at sundown. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I will die,” she said, her voice light as a dry wind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The queen’s men are saying that the King-Beyond-the-Wall died craven. That he cried for mercy and denied he was a king.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Adams was born, her mother had died. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Of course if they stayed here, they would die anyway. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Milton lying on his bed, dreaming about my mother in the same way I would later dream about die Obscure Object. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I mean I’m sitting here lounging; he’s practically dying out there. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

By this time it was much too late for Madame Curie, who died of leukemia in 1934. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At least then you could have died with your comrades when the Romans invade. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like he died and came back to life. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

History lives, it dies, and it comes alive again as the soaking-wet, mangled, and bloodied corpse of a Mexican ranch hand. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time I’ve said it since I told Tobias, on the train ride over, that my parents died for me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with you? People died. They walked right off the edge of a building! And I can stop it from happening again!” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pale green curtain, die same color as my gown, that could be pulled across the table, dividing my upper and lower halves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would still be the one dying. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He knows about Patricia in two days because she got out of the bed to go to the lavatory when she was supposed to use a bedpan and collapsed and died in the lavatory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was so upset that he died in the end. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m being faced with the heaviest of chances today: I may have to watch him die, unless it’s the other way around, and both possibilities make me want to throw up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“After today, four more days. Then he dies.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On Saipan, over 3,000 Americans died between June 15 and July 13, when the Marines were pulled back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he would die before doing any such thing. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Burying my face in the iron-gray hair, I cried and begged God not to let my grandfather die. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do not know where, when, or how this great engineer-scientist died. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

How did people just allow them to die? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Hell, I ain’t stopping now. I just got here,” die woman answered, rising rhythmically. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sandwich could never clearly see if in fact you succeed in bringing back light or if you fail. But he most adamantly insisted we attempt the venture or die by the rats’ teeth.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She always had at least two and sometimes four golden retrievers when her girls were little, all the way until she died. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Her uncle ruled the Iron Islands now, and the Crow’s Eye would not care if she lived or died. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The reason you hate Cydopies so much ... the story about how Thalia realty died. What happened?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As it dies the creature lashes out, inadvertently opening gashes on a few of its companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but when he dies it’s going to be ours.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Istanbul? He was going to die in Istanbul?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Not since the day her mother died had Polly felt such agony. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered what it would sound like when the last human died. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And she said, “Then how come when you die, those are the first things you expel?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Constantine died, Skeeter. I sent her a check, for her birthday. To the address I found for her daughter, but Lulabelle... sent it back. With a copy of the obituary.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They did not die in the dives and dens of Birmingham, nor did they die discussing and listening to filthy jokes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We know you’ve been in the backbrain, attempting to erase records of Scythe Faraday’s movements on the day he died, to foil our own internal investigation.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Why, it didn’t matter what their dinner had died of, they could just chomp it down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They had spread a blanket near a fire and hung a lantern on a tree and they sat around the blanket slapping bugs in die dark, surrounded by campfires, laughter and music. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not safe enough for us to travel on the river until the unrest has died down, 50 our only choice is to continue to the release site. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He can talk,” said Emilia after the first shock had died away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Moss about his uncle dying from a drive-by and then how the Oakland PD shot his brother during a traffic stop. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He must have died and gone to hell. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But, if I get in trouble again, you’ll be in danger, Percy! You could die!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I go the wrong way this time, I'll eat dust and die. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dark and soft and warm, somewhere between two and four a.m., one of those hours that belong exclusively to the newly born or the dying. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As he was dying, word spread throughout Hayti that he needed a blood transfusion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the new memories and information I’ve added since I’ve been here, notes about Gran’s dogs dying, Granddad and the ivory goose, Gat giving me the Moriarty book, the aunts fighting about the Boston house. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Must I remind my lord, this trouble is not of my doing? And not all of us have had die opportunity to refill our coffers with the plunder of Maidenpool and Dragonstone.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think, but I could hear the sounds of the guns far away in the distance and the cries of people dying in pain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Because after you died, it’s not like you were choosing to ignore my letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah. Well, we can give it a shot. Any idea when the poor old sap died?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She had hoped to keep all of her fine boys home with her until either she or they died. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seemed like he would never give up and die.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Harry, however, remained behind, taking a seat beside the fire and looking down into the dying embers. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This evolutionary response is not one that does the genetically susceptible dying individual any good. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are no longer slaves, doomed to die at a master’s whim. I freed you. Why should you wish to end your lives upon the scarlet sands?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Timothy seemed veiy tired and groaned a lot Before we went to sleep, I asked him, “Tell me die truth, Timothy, how old are you?” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then as autumn flares with the false heat of summer before it dies into the winter, so with the quick love Wang Lung had for Pear Blossom. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He’d sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You probably saw him in the videos. He didn’t die until you were two.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When Gullah people die, babies in the family get passed over the coffin so the dead person won’t come back from the beyond to take them away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“How can I not cry, Mom? You almost died.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I said, “It looks then as though the natural contentiousness of people had died. But I don’t believe that. It’ll just take another channel. Can you think, sir, of what that channel might be?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pm not certain how I can be more direct. They’ll die, Jacob.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Of the ninety women left on board, sixteen had died during that storm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max said that mostly, he helped them die. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No one will be left to die. You are all my people.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the last note of God Save the King died away she relaxed again, and attacked her chicken in a sort of frenzy, chattering over her shoulder to her partner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Up die hill from the campsite the same windstorm that left him a place to land the plane—had that only been three, four days ago?—had dropped three large white pines across each other. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like most of the people she knew had died, or moved for work, or moved to be close to their kids. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My brother D.B.'s a writer and all, and my brother Allie, the one that died, that I told you about, was a wizard. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to die—though as the beating went on, I wanted to. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Uma nursed the baby, tucked him into their furs, and softly sang him to sleep as the fire began to die down. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the sword up, twisting it in a wide arc, and said, “None of your heroes are here to save you now. You’ll die at the end of my sword this time.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered about his own children; how most of them had been born but to sicken and die before they grew up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Billy, here, says you took good care of the pony before it died.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t die very differently than mortals, although I am sure it would gall him to know that. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He always said that when he died, we should put him on a mountaintop and let the buzzards and coyotes tear his body apart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If Trav ever became rich and famous, there's no question he would have. He gave me one of his stories to read on the day he died.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether God had died, or whether there never had been a God at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’d be nice,” she said, “if nothing ever had to die.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Royalties from the book guaranteed his family a comfortable life long after he died of throat cancer, on July 23, 1885. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When people say it’s for life, it’s for life. You gotta be willing to die in it or die for it. You want out?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then he saw die pile of berries at the back of the shelter and remembered the night and being sick. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Old habits—old opinions—die hard. He probably thinks all black kids are hoodlums.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they died, he plowed their bodies into the dirt for fertilizer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for the applause for the Parks to die down and continue to speak. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

So even though you died fighting that fire like a hero, no one can prove it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The crown prince wore the armor he would die in: gleaming black plate with the three-headed dragon of his House wrought in rubies on the breast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“If I weren’t about to die, I would totally rewrite that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I would die if my coworkers overheard me admit the truth, if they discovered my secret. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minnie tells me she was bom in Toledo, Ohio, the last of thirteen children, and that her mother died giving birth to her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they die before they make it out of the shell. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know that politics would suit me, sir,” he said when the laughter had died away. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Catherine LeMaigre died on Tuesday, despite the efforts of her three highly skilled physicians. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“We have come too far to turn back now, Meera. We would never make it back to the Wall alive. We go with Bran’s monster, or we die.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that I was going to die. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So were too these men I worked beside: transformed against their will into the dead; and asked to die again so that they might be free. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Old ladies would rather die than have you so much as breathe your stench on their teacups. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This was where monsters went when they died. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Without its silver rings and bracelets, the hand looked as weak as the leg of a dying bird. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He was still alive when Crazy Horse found him. He held his friend in his arms until he died. Everyone who saw that said Crazy Horse cried like a baby.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or, “Starr saw her best friend die, keep her in your prayers, but my baby made the honor roll again. #Blessed.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Something twisted in her gut at the thought of all those slaves she’d left behind in Endovier, all those people doomed to suffer until they died. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The façade was old and exceedingly well crafted, and those who had erected it had long since died and had taken with them the memory of their achievement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Paralysis followed so instantaneously that he could not reach the antidotes he had prepared at hand, and so he died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s nearly cold but not stiff. What do you make of it, Vervain? Rabbits don’t die underground.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for just a minute, and for the first time since he died, I let down the gate and I thought about my buddy Stan. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Many Africans died of malnutrition, overwork, or injuries inflicted by punishments—and were merely replaced by a fresh crop from the slave boats. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I saw us walking slowly, silently, toward a far, verdant part of die convent grounds, where suddenly, and without sin, I would put my arm around her waist. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The wooden bed in the room held the shrunken body of my dying uncle Lucas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was there, in that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year after my mother died giving birth to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some part of them does, but they are young, and drunk, and busy knowing deep in their hearts that they will never grow old or die. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But if your eyes and your head and your leg hurt the way mine do, dying might start to look good.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He tells us we must promise to die for Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The gods had been monsters, and had deserved to die. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“If your father died, they gave you a peach pit and put you in a circle of all the men. The man you gave the pit to would be your new daddy.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this log will be recovered before the rest of the crew die of old age. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instinctively she knew that Thanatos could simply touch her, and she would die. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had no trouble getting sparks, but the tiny bits of hot stone or metal—he couldn’t tell which they were— just sputtered and died. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squinted at the paper, read the words slowly: “Public woman. She died of yellow fever. And for my dad it just says unknown.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Now they just wanted the peace of mind of knowing how he had died. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the morning die chill was more pronounced and he could see tiny wisps of vapor from his breath. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hell to talk about things like this to one about to die. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever she said next, it was going to determine whether they lived or died. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock the house began to die. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liza Hamilton died with a pinched little smile on her mouth, and her cheekbones were shockingly high when the red was gone from them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The golden light flowed into it and died. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What good is money to you if you’re going to die? It’s not often that money can save someone’s life,” the alchemist had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I started to think, maybe it was for something that the girls had died. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought of her smell since she died. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even if I said something right then about everything I knew, the wrong person had died and the wrong person had lived. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

His arms ached for something heavier than trays, for something dirtier than peelings; his feet wanted the heavy work shoes, not die thin-soled black shoes that the hotel required. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He died in World War II. They never married or had children. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And with him died a little of Turtle. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I tell him, “I’m only letting you because my mother is dying.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I definitely don’t want to stink up the apartment by dying in here. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They would soon have died without water, and there was none where they were; any spring that made its way into the air was soon swallowed again among the rocks. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is lying on the other side, and she is dying. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This clearly wasn’t enough, because his patients continued to die. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Well now, I couldn’t very well let you die, especially since you’ve cleared my name.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We only came dose to dying six or seven times, which-1 thought was pretty good. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If we march, we will die by the hundreds.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But finally they all agreed that it was the best alternative, since they would all die anyway if nothing was done.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His quest for belonging, for love, had ended when he had knelt by a bed and held his dying mother s hand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The little bit of sound that crackled through its speakers moaned and died out. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she was not a person to die at his command. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The men in the first cell were mostly sleeping, or dying, or dead. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chief White Halfoat kept promising everyone that he was going to die of pneumonia, and I guess I’ll just have to be patient until the weather turns a little colder and damper.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Crews on Deep Blue III heard Jackson Boy calling out for days. Couldn’t find him, though. Little lice- biter finally just dried up and died.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Gram about her once, and she said that Isabella had been one of her favorite teachers before she’d gotten sick and died. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s worse. Better to die than go home.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Or what if it was that train engineer’s time to die? What would of happened to Will?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Chris’s father spoke eloquently of the pain of losing a son, but with satisfaction that he had died in the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jermaine stopped talking to me just before he died, okay? We had had a argument.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The last who will die must decide where he stands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he put them in a box, they scrambled around for a few days and then died. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the ceiling and felt like I was dying slowly, right along with Thalia’s tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They carried large pictures of loved ones who had died. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, it only further proves my point: Mateo doesn’t deserve to die. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The twitch in Needles's arms started to die down. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Actually, I’m not sure I have been dying to know. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Through blurred vision, he saw two prisoners removing the body of the man on his left, who had just died. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Salamanders will dry out and die next to fish that never made it to the lake in time. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He ripped it off and crawled along the listing deck until die water was only neck deep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The creaking in my rocker died away as I slowed to a stop. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities said the man died later that day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The last time I found myself this close to a person, a person slowly dying, was the night of the party. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“If I die, my friends will swear to leave you in peace and not take revenge. You’d have your sight back, which even Gaea won’t give you.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fates were all right if you were Pima and got lucky with a good mom and a dad who was nice enough to have died before he could start beating you. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had all died and it had accomplished nothing, the wall was unbroken, die blue line was sound. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

After Chella died, he was moved into her corner, the corner that Kuttappen imagined was the corner of his home that Death had reserved to administer her deathly affairs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too young when my other grandparents died, but I’d heard so much about how my father’s father couldn’t bear to live without his wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My nicknames referred to my being born during a bad year when two of my father’s brothers died in a raid. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugged sadly, as if to say that if he were meant to die, it might be tonight or it might be tomorrow, and there was no difference. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"When he spits on you, he spits on all of us. He spits on the Drowned God. He must die." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

People in the countryside died like chickens on a hot summer day. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the era of Jim Crow—when black people showed up at white-only hospitals, the staff was likely to send them away, even if it meant they might die in the parking lot. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A few days after Jim died, at the viewing of body, Jackie had asked the girls to look at their father so they could know and understand that this was a real thing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gone, too, are the outlaws, many of whom died as spectacularly as they lived. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court would do with all of the children condemned to die in prison, now that it had the issue to consider. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He died in his third year in high school and I was one of his pallbearers, and I think I was guilty of the sin of pride at being chosen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have easily disappeared and died there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I read that line out loud, Deborah whispered, “We didn’t forget about her. My mother died . . . nobody told me she was here. I would have got her out.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The final Trial is the Trial of Loyalty. The Empire has decreed that this slave-girl is to die.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A medium with red hair told me that a girl who died in a far country follows me wherever I go. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer comes and goes and then it’s fall and then winter, and the King dies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do something. He’s sick. He’s going to die!” but his wife said, “Calm down. It’s just a fever. All kids get fevers.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you die? Did someone kill you?” she asked, in much the same tone as if she were inquiring after his health. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I know she’d die with that story still inside her, partly out of shame, but mostly to protect us. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The minister was a tall coal-black deep-voiced freedman with a face that reminded me of a picture I had of my father who had died before I was old enough to know him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Now if his mother dies, he’ll be an orphan. He didn’t even know that.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I think I saw them — I think I saw them—die? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“But I didn’t throw you into the river so you could die.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“He told me his parents died in an accident.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was then that the heavens heard the cries of those men who had died from the lawlessness of the Earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I would have died here if you hadn’t come.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She wasted four whole years with him—from the age of eighteen, when she started working at the office, to the day she died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If I were captured, the best I could hope for would be to die soon. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A memory came to her, undiminished after so many years, of the day Aunty Uju's General died, how Aunty Uju had threatened his relatives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The younger sister of a friend of Vincent’s died after falling off a horse. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I am going to die here, she thought. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Catelyn wondered how large a waterfall her own tears would make when she died. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Now what happens if you die on me?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lying on the ground next to Middleton was Henry Smith, eighteen years old and also dying, the result of five gunshot wounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The day my dad died, Mama and I were in Alabama. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to sit back and watch my babies die, Lord, even if that’s what You in Your great wisdom decide. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shooting victim did not die; Mr. Dill was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And die walls being painted white to serve as a nursery. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Then I won’t drink, not even water. I will die of thirst at your feet, and Arthur will give me a splendid funeral, and never forgive you for making me.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think more people are dying,” Alex replied, saddened that even on his sister’s birthday, death intruded. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And...if you die before me,” said Peach in a thoughtful voice, “can I have your bottle cap collection that Uncle Edisto willed to you?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He despised both his mother and his father for selfishly breeding in a labor camp, for producing offspring doomed to die behind barbed wire. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The wind died down to little puffs, my own breath. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Grace,” said Missandei, “this one begs leave to say that half of Meereen will be there to watch men bleed and die.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But alas, he died before Christmas break in a car accident. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I am standing with my brother in the hours before he dies. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Just at the . . . the very end. Because he had lost someone who died, and so had I...” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Not long after Charles Monet died, it was established that the family of filoviruses comprised Marburg along with two types of a virus called Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I crossed my heart and hoped to die,” Beck told me good-naturedly as we stood in the blowing snow and waning light. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was dying, of course, but then we all are. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger girls formed hopes of coming out a year or two sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte’s dying an old maid. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

His parents had died before he was five years old. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how bad the situation got, and how many times the doctors told me he was going to die, it just didn’t sink in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The echoing bang of the slammed cellar door had not died away before there was a terrible, drawn-out scream from directly above them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Though advisors had died already in Vietnam, sending in combat troops meant many more Americans would be killed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He warns me, too, not to take Linden Road or else I’ll die in a bad accident. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Grandma stayed at our apartment the week after Dad died, while Mom was going around Manhattan putting up posters. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to those remarkable men, plus others uncounted who died on the way, Angola has wrested itself free of Portugal and still owns its diamonds and oil wells. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horrible conditions of confinement and their constantly being told that they would die in prison no matter how well they behaved meant that most of our clients had long lists of disciplinaries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When May died, Ob and me had to talk business with the funeral parlor, religion with the preacher, and make small talk with dozens of relatives and people we’d hardly ever seen before. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man died without a penny, yet his children grew up to graduate from college, to become doctors, professors, teachers, and professionals all. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, because at the first hint of a complaint, Mrs. Baker folded her arms across her chest and stood still, staring at whoever had started to rebel until all rebellion died. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I figured as soon as they were through being amused, I would die. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their lives had been exceedingly difficult and their relationship with the government was strained: nearly a quarter of the men and thirty-seven percent of the women said family members had died of hunger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“But we haven’t spoken with her since shortly after Warren died.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If Rush died—if his cure failed to save him—then all hope would vanish and the fever would march on unobstructed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“My old man died one month later in the hot sun in the middle of a potato field outside Saguache, Colorado,” Joe finished quietly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if all of them were sentenced to live here until they died? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Right in front of her, he said he didn’t want no funeral when he died. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

This dream of Mary Anne’s would die by morning like all the other dreams of the town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been literally stomped to death, dying of internal injuries. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It just happened, like the time she gained 118 pounds in the days her father was dying. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as quickly as it had died out, the sound of talking began again, as if the rats were too polite to stand and stare. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He paid attention to die feeling now and he stood and waited, patiendy, knowing he was right and that something would come. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will not let Tobias go to Erudite when it happens again, when someone else dies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know it will be awful for Kim when I die, but I also think about what she said, about not being scared, about jail being easy compared to losing me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, I don’t know if it’s sadder to die alone or in the company of someone who not only doesn’t mean anything to you, but also probably doesn’t care much for you either. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t even let you feel what you want to feel. They after you so hot and hard you can only feel what they doing to you. They kill you before you die.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before my cousin arrived, I thought my grandmother would die soon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just him and me. My mama died when I was small.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He squats by my side and his smell overwhelms me, a sign at least that I haven’t died of mortification. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He takes command of the Army on a Sunday, June 28, two days before die battle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had died birthing her, and for that her brother Viserys had never forgiven her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The virus died with the bird, and she carried it back to Oksi. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Darin doesn’t have anyone else. You were close to my parents. Think of them—please. They wouldn’t want their only son to die because you refused to help.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Demetrius stalks off alone, and I know he’s remembering that day two years ago when he was forced to watch his little brother die just like Barrius. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I kind of inherited her when her previous owner died. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Late-harvesting things were ruined, of course, and fowl died of both chill and rage. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And I want to talk to the cop who saw her die.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He came as she had asked, and before that awful glory of burning light she died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I saw Daddy cry was when PopPop died. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

After my father died, I didn’t know what happened to the handful of spiles he had. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scene was so comic the people walked into die road to make sure they saw it all. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thus had her mother lived and died; and she had often been brought low, but she had never been forsaken. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lucky for her, True Belle was dying and willing to die in Vesper County, after giving her whole well life to Miss Vera Louise in Baltimore. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s what someone leaves behind when she dies,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

On November 17, 1896, he was taken to Mercy Hospital, where he died five days later, apparently of typhoid fever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When the flare finally died down, it was as if all the light in the room had burned out with it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Now you will die,” Wheat promised, gnashing his teeth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Bordonis were childless, and when the wife died in ripe years a lonely longing for his Alpine past fell on her husband. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This little bit of a girl, wriggling around on the floor, drooling all over herself. She looked like a goldfish that fell out of its bowl. You know how they flop around until they die?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She would have the small television on the kitchen counter on and be watching die news and talking about how awful it was in South Africa or how cute the baby in the commercial looked. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you choose the second route, the probability is A that none of your soldiers will die, and 2A that all 600 will die. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if she might have been better off dying that night she’d been betrayed and captured, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We’re not going to run anymore. If we run over there we’re going to die anyway, and my uncle is not going to be able to find our bodies.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What if he met another woman, some princess of die Lhazarene?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If he could get it out of die plane, or if he could just get into it and pull something out A candy bar. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I said that, I wondered if he’d think I was lying because of how he made up a story about seeing his cousins right after Ben died. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

If things had gone as they had hoped, the hospital would have been completed within a year, and Old Granny would not have had to die in the street as she did. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Regiment was moving across die front of die 83rd Pennsylvania. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the movie starts up, Charlie leans over and tells me the only reason they’re showing it is because there’s a rumor going around that Finch was on something, and this is why he died. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I cannot leave until I know what happened to Wan. Tell me, how did he die?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Alas, the habit of fear dies hard, and perhaps I will never trust anyone again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He died a year and a half after Mitt did. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wore many names when I was quick, but even I once had a mother, and die name she gave me at her breast was Brynden.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he had acted, and died for it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She wriggles sluggishly in their arms like a dying fish. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We heard that the British shoot first. And if you don’t die from a musket ball to your gut, they’ll finish you off with a quick stab in the heart with a bayonet.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Though everyone was dying for an explanation, we had elected to give the girls a moment to themselves, and stared in amazement from a respectful distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The thing approached the proportions of a scandal--then died away. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When he died in 1971, it was fortunate that she had two grandchildren living close to her to help her through her grief. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When he comes to the pictures of the bus in which the boy died, however, he stiffens abruptly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three died as babies, she says, but only a little of the spinning stops. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I would rather live than die, I admit it.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t see how. When my daddy died last year this April it costed one hundred and fifty dollars. ’ The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m sure of it. You are too pathetic. You’d let us die first.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as they saw that little group of trees, Lyra and Will both knew that their dæmons were in there, and that if they didn’t reach them soon, they would die. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She nodded very slightly, accepting my explanation, the blaze dying out behind her face. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns on her side, touches my arm, whispers back, “I once wished for Mom to die.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The not so hopeful news is that there seems to be a new war about every other week and millions have died since the charter was signed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was almost like sailing in die days before the war, they told me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if that stupid longing for something cold and wet doesn’t go away even after you die? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But it would be a lot of trouble and they always died. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was probably too soon to have heard back from anyone by the day she died. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He knew that water was no small matter, and that they’d all have died without his gift, so he didn’t tend to waste much regret over not having Skathis’s power. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It might not die straight away, and besides, the blood would get all over him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My roommates didn’t fall asleep until 4:00 A.M. so when the alarm went off at 6:30,1 thought I was going to die. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was not his choice to He dying on a remote island, alone, unable to move. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He would at least have died after having crossed the strait, after having worked in a crystal shop, and after having known the silence of the desert and Fatima’s eyes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told how he raised the alarm when I fell from the branch, then ran downstream, plunging into die water to intercept my floating body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Had the birds been blown over from the coast of South America and then diverged as they lived and died. generation after generation, on the islands? he wondered. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Investigators found that monkeys had been dying in large numbers there, too. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother almost died, will never be healthy again, and it’s your father’s fault!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When my mother died and was cremated herself, we worried that, acting on instinct, our father might run out and immediately replace her. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“He’d die of exposure if he tried to five in the woods in this weather.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When Francois Duvalier, known as “Papa Doc,” died of a heart attack in 1971, his nineteen-year-old son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, took over the reins of power and became known as “Baby Doc.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

One of the leaves that was falling over—yellowed, dying, drooping like a waterslide that nobody’s allowed on—has pumped up a little, is climbing to the window. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You cannot die. Ah, that is lovely Tfe says he cannot die!” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the clutch of die helpless I am helpless. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand slaves lifted bloodstained hands as die raced by on her silver, riding like die wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“LET ME OUT,” he shouted to the Sisters, but his voice seemed to die the moment it fell from his mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Bog—our beloved Bog—became toxic and rank, and people died because they could not get air. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They never even found out how he died. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But the radio newscasters had no idea what was going on, and now the women thought they were going to die. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to die,” the man wheezed back through an angry breath. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He was a platoon sergeant. He died a few years ago.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

After he died, the guards left his body, and then the sea buzzards carried it off in pieces. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Especially since Grandpa had died three months before that. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And now you face me, like a man . . . straight-backed and proud, the way your father died. “And now —- we duel.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They’ve been looking at these cartoons, seeing people die twice on TV, and they thought that this little boy couldn’t die. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I really willing to die for it? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But I will rebuild on this space. This was my father’s space before I was born, and my mother’s after he died. Now that she is dead, it’s mine.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And beyond that, she said that plenty of married women have lovers—and sometimes their husbands die young, especially in a time of war. Can you believe that?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And then my best friend, but I don’t want to tell her I’m dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know. Maybe three or four years. Lost track. Wait, let me think. Frank died...” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His mother had been a baker before she died, and he'd pushed her cart through the streets all day, shouting “Hot pies! Hot pies!” A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Hungerford, Straw, that lot. Some of them weren’t so bad for sellswords. Others, well, might be they could stand a bit of dying. What of them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind died away—a sudden hush descended. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When die gold cloaks dragged off die dead man, he left a trail of bright blood across the stone floor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was too late to ask for help, and he waited to die the way smoke dies, drifting away in currents of air, twisting in thin swirls, fading until it exists no more. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce asked the kitchen maid skinning a pig in the manor yard, the laundress boiling great kettles of goose fat for soap, the carpenters fashioning a coffin for Old Ned, who had died that morning. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two seasons later, large branches on these trees had died, others were without leaves, and the deformed, weeping effect of whole trees persisted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like it was when Mom died,” I said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Abnegation are dying again, dying like they were when I pretended to be under the simulation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The hands of this God would be bright with flowers that would never die and this God would sing and stutter and limp along an alleyway and pass judgment in the land beside the river. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And if by some mischance he does, we will throw him back into die sea. Once you choose a new Warden of the East—" The king groaned. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was barely breathing fast at all, but I felt like I was dying. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thanks for dying, Tariq, so I could get my fifteen minutes of fame. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My friend is dying. Can you cure him or not?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he has to,” he says, “before she dies.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I nod without speaking, because if I speak, I’ll unleash the millions of questions I’m dying to ask. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

His strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He finally settled back in the relative safety of the United States and dies in a car crash driving me to a basketball game. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She would of died if it hadn’t been for you.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max turned his face from him, and mumbled, “Men die alone, Bigger.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All this walking and stumbling and coughing and dying and it’s really, really them, by God it’s really them. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It will be in a museum someday once she dies. She’s sick so it won’t be long before I cash in.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The words came together and said how Joey died: alone and scared. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were slightly purple beneath—hadn’t he gotten any sleep in the three weeks since Xavier had died? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Does your old family just think you died?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to die dispensing window of the stand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ma’s mama died of pneumonia, and we don’t ever get the chance to forget it. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bank was dying, but still the people of Midland, and even Odessa, refused to believe it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be stupid, Hali. Haven’t you figured it out yet? No one’s coming to help the people here! They’re probably all going to die of thirst. You don’t want to be one of them!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If Chipo’s baby died, they would be sent away as witches. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Will you tell us how he died?—Will you tell us about the other worlds out among the stars—the other kinds of men, the other lives? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seven thousand Jews had been collected and taken away to die, but we were not among them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was very close to his older brother Willie and is said to have cried for a month when he died. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not? Like I said, no one really believes they’re going to die.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I will die, in my own small way, undefeated. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Me? Soheil died because of what we did. Because of me.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As he could not die all at once, he was allowed to spend some time at it, on the sleeping-shelf. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital ward I was born in, classrooms, tents, churches, offices, hotels, museums, nursing homes, the room I'll die in. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The person must have died in the tree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the lump, why, the lump threw an arm across its beautiful, ugly, pinched-up face and all my fear over Fang dying, about him being dead, turned to disgust instead of relief. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Those who die on the battlefield are not dead, but are alive!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. “Death Comes for Us All” didn’t want to die. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She once asked Glerk what happens to people when they died. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Almost all had suffered bums, and four of them had died. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or would it be more honorable to die than to become the King’s Champion? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Is it so hard to die, Mr. Lewis? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He went without a shirt but something about the wood smoke smell on him kept die insects from bothering him as he walked to the berry patch. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She died a thousand years ago, her bones lie afar under the Sea of Éa, and maybe there never was such a woman.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Each time someone was born or died, we had the preacher put it inside the Bible. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the explosion and my ear and Rue's dying and the boy from District 1 and the bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Piper, my dear, choose which hero will die with you. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The murmur of their voices floated up into the dying light. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, when she was eight, going on nine, her mother had died, an event not immediately recognized by Elizabeth as a disaster, since she had scarcely known her mother and had certainly never loved her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Wherever it touched, the grass withered and died. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Are you going to die, Papa? he said. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he stirred and said softly, “Reuven, do you know what the rabbis tell us God said to Moses when he was about to die?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He would be willing to die himself, he said—“But not even for my own city will I slay my son.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the voices of his new friends died away, he was aware of the silence. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He returned to England that summer, hoping to overturn the studies with his analysis, but was struck by pneumonia and died suddenly at home. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lidia picks up almost instantly, but there’s still this pause before she answers, a lot like in the weeks after Christian died. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For example, when the rabbits all over England died of the introduced rabbit disease, myxomatosis, the foxes didn’t have much left to eat, so they began killing the farmers’ chickens. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was alone, alone, alone and she was going to die. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

True, he didn’t think about dying every day, but he denied himself the luxury of thinking about the future with or without his dad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And before Bigheart disclosed critical information about the murders to Vaughan—and before he died of suspected poisoning at the hospital in Oklahoma City—he had sought a “certificate of competency” from authorities. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’ll be hung if he didn’t lie flat on his back then, like he was ready to die himself. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many died of this sickness when they became so fevered that they lost their minds, threw off blankets, and walked outside to freeze. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had been asked about my past before—my father, how he died, where I was when it happened, how it had felt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes—miners used to bring canaries with them to gauge oxygen levels in the mine. If the canary died, they knew the oxygen was running out and they’d better get out of there.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are no plaques for the Germans who died here. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was getting the act cheap, and she had to admit that die bird was very good, a skilled and professional performer who almost made up for the act’s human deficiencies. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He died in 1980, and it was a very sad time for me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother did not think so; her mother’s voice over the phone line the next day was grave, the solemn tone that would be used to talk about somebody who had died. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had to die in order for me, the rest of me, to live. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all four had tears running down their cheeks when Beth died in Little Women. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Domishmen are notoriously stubborn, Your Grace. Prince Quentyn’s forebears fought your own for die better part of two hundred years. He will not go without you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"It would be better to have die letters read aloud." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The real hero is Abraham Lincoln and the principles for which he lived—and died: freedom and equal rights for all Americans. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him a lot about Baba, his job, the flea market, and how, at the end, he’d died happy. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he also had his own printing press, and he was fortunate that, after he died, Kepler saw his unpublished works into print. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When the wise old grandfather found out, instead of raising a row as had been feared, he commented, dying with laughter, that it was the natural destiny of literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When she died is when I started really going on the drinking spells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he and another person got their minds locked into a frightening thought—and who does not have one now and then?—they would mirror it back and forth until they died or went insane. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the smoke and flame died, and new marks were seared onto Frank’s skin: spqr, an image of crossed spears, and a single stripe, representing the first year of service. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I didn't want to just die out on the surface. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he come here the day he died? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

G. went into shock and died with blood running from the orifices of his body. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunflower is a symbol of constancy, and the portrait represents Digby in mourning for his wife, Venetia, who had died suddenly in 1633. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He took die controls back, then reached up and rubbed his left shoulder. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are good for nothing and might as well die so their food rations can go to those who contribute to rebuilding the country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence, listening to strange creaks and groans in die maze, the echo of stones grinding together as tunnels changed, grew, and expanded. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In another he saw an old woman who had been slowly dying for the past four years, whose shoulder blades were jutting through the open wounds in her back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words died away, the listening air was very still, the black night waited. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did she think people were dying of cancer? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She died in a car crash,” said Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“As...well, you know. If there is, I sure wish I’d heard about it in time for my weddin’!” And we both died laughing again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“If she lives, she lives. If she dies...” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“After the first eruptions,” he said, “white volcanic ash rained from the sky for months. The dead and dying were covered in it. So now to wear white is to remember the dead.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My mother had to decide whether to risk her life for her two older sons, or stay and watch her sons and husband die in a war. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother had died in an alcoholic coma, and she was afraid of drink—yet she drank. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to die there—” she broke off, embarrassed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered my father's story of how he had been beaten blind in a crooked fight, of the scandal that had been suppressed, and how the fighter had died in a home for the blind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We shared a bunk. I—I was with her when she died." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but what’s the point, since they all have to die anyway?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I wondered if my wall would look like this if I died, or if I’d been out of school and life long enough to escape widespread memorialization. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Their mother had died during the disease time, and their father’s other wife—Pascal’s mother—had taken them both into her house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early years had been times of battle, in which those who insisted on living by the sword had been made to die by it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It won’t really hydrate us, but it will keep us from dying. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t like seeing the deer die,” she said at last. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ain’t no way for you to know what it feels like to leave your body when you die. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If this world was dying and there was nothing to be done for it, then what was left for me here? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of a bear, wounded or dying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s...it’s like, when someone dies, their body is an empty shell with no spirit, right?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If only we’d given the Martians time to arrange their death robes, lie down, look fit, and think up some other excuse for dying. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The boy is a long time dying. I wish he would be quicker about it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as I cross into Hudson River Park, the traffic din dies down, giving way to the sloshing of waves against the piers that jut out into the river. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When Tom was six, his mother died, apparently from complications after childbirth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Gradually, painfully, the flames seemed to expire in Tally’s chest, the cough dying a quiet death inside her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On Sunday morning, with Garfield's fate unknown, former President Rutherford Hayes wrote in his diary that the country faced a disaster if Garfield died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It would be so much easier to give up and die. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I get rid of all the oxygen, the bacteria will die. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the laughter died away and the naming continued. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he could smell the blood of the dead guards or the meat in die butcher’s wagon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Because he’s dying,” she said, her voice flat, her eyes still on her plate. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Rivers broke his camp quickly and sad- died up beside her, and they set off again, near fifty strong now, flying beneath the direwolf, the leaping trout, the twin towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My father’s dead, my mother’s dying, my brother’s being flayed, and there’s naught that I can do about any of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We all grew up before we were grown up. Did he—?” Jutta says, “He died.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Surely Dumbledore had chosen them, as the eldest member of the family once his mother had died. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Deborah was happy when she died: her grandson Little Alfred was now twelve, headed into the eighth grade, and doing well in school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A rush of students surrounds us, and the laughter dies in my throat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t forget the way he had looked at me just before he died. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d rather die first, which I did do in a way, because I lost my mother and sister when I left home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not care, then, about the deaths of her husband and child? They can die, as long as you have what you want?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ghost stories revealed how people who died wouldn’t let go of whatever they were holding. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sat at the base of a sturdy pine tree and waited to die. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But they don’t really believe they almost died, or that they look ugly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she thought about dancing in front of an audience full of strangers in four short days, she wanted to throw up or die. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t remember being in the car when his parents had died. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They don’t care if people are dying in the bed.They don’t care if people are legless, lunatic or crawling on the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Since sugar and meat were both in short supply, and since it was rumored that infants had died from saccharin mixed into formulas as a sugar substitute, these charges were widely believed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only went because a friend of mine had recently died of his long illness and I was feeling at loose odds and ends. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t said or implied a word to him about my recent, extracurricular doings, and I was dying to make this final news-break—to scoop him thoroughly—when we were alone. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go dying—you and me got some talking to do.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the meantime I could let loose clouds of smoke and die by suffocation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He died without a face in a room I never saw without my kisses in the stained gauze or without my prayers entering the center of his pain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said a voice from the door, and the laughter died as Cook and Ophie turned to see a very plain white woman standing in the doorway. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I think about my piano lessons, and the keyboard I’m dying to save up for. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If they died, it would be his fault. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It dies of hunger and exposure in the next few days. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A large grove of trees filled the final corner; the closest ones looked crippled and close to dying. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After Isabel died I didn’t know how I would make this happen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be killed. I don’t want to die. Is it true what the old sheep says, Charlotte? Is it true they are going to kill me when the cold weather comes?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

One woman began to wail about a brother who had died at Daznak’s Pit, another of the damage to her palanquin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"You do not mean to die with him? You swear it, my queen?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Will said, “So you’re not going to tell me this secret of yours? All right. Tell me this, instead: what happens when we die?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yet as she lay under her thin blanket, she could hear die wolves howling .. . and another sound, fainter, no more than a whisper on the wind, that might have been screams. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If you touched Auggie, and you didn’t wash off the contamination, you died. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

No extra patrols, no eyes down like the night Mr. Schwarzer died. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I told myself, “Lord, he won’t die, will he? He’s my husband. He’s my dream. He won’t die now, will he, Lord?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason men died for her was not her own fault, but her father’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, this hospital is full of people having poisonous chemicals pumped into their veins or submitting to horrible operations all so they can stay, but some of them will die anyway. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One hundred and forty-six people, exactly the number of Monitors on each ship, is all it takes for humans to continue with enough genetic diversity in case the rest of us die.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guy died four days later in the hospital. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The president of the United States could not die in a theater. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t let this be the way I die.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If the tree uprooted and fell, she would fall with it and die. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was dying, his eyes glazed with the pain-killing drug of shock; yet his muscles still flexed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month later Tagoe found out his pops had committed suicide, and homeboy still hasn’t shed a tear over the guy, never even asked how or where he died. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The word is that you were with him when he left the school the night that he died.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been scared like that before, not even when Mom died. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"I pray to the God of Life every day that Charlotte wakes up before I die so she can take her rightful place as queen. To be at my side when I announce my illness." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Of course. Isn’t that what life is? We all die at the end.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Emily, I know it’s far too hot, but Leon’s absolutely dying for one of Betty’s roasts. He goes on about them all the time. I heard him boasting about them to Mr. Marshall.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Anyway, you would be surprised by how many people died in the killer skunk attacks of 1919, including poor Billy Snagglehook, May God Rest His Soul. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Eight years...eight years ago was when Dad died.... The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the night, Isaac the Joiner had a dream in which we all hung with wires through our bodies, and pigeons made their homes upon us, even as we died suspended. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He went to his friends begging one after another of them to die and let him live. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went together to buy birds for the cages that had been empty ever since my grandmother, sensing that she was about to die, had opened them and let the birds fly out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am in fear that her power of reading the Count’s sensations may die away, just when we want it most. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’m not afraid of dying, but I want to die a different way, any other way. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had been dying to go to Griswold’s famous San Francisco book carnival since she first heard about it five years ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were three of them— just like there were three of us—and one of them had to die. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My worst fear: that my family will die, and that I will be responsible. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was cool outside in the early morning and the sun had not yet dried the dew that had come when the wind died down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a hut, he said, about eight feet wide and six feet deep, with supports made of wood he’d picked off die beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before I found out I was dying, I knew home, Pluto, wasn’t gonna be home for me much longer. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought Mom was going to die of embarrassment,” Lexie said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I heard Madam ask the doctor plain when the old lady would die. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night when I asked Rob about it he said he wasn’t certain, but he thought the victim was a Sherpa who’d died three years earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless they die. Dead children come last everywhere.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Is it his fault the old man died?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Finding religion gave her a tiny bit of solace, and she remained a devout Muslim till the day she died. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If we couldn’t outrun her and lose her, we’d die alone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to even be close to her. When Marse Tom sold my babies, I just wanted to lay down and die. Seeing her like she was brought all that back.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

No one else has had a sister die in childbirth and then been lied to about it for almost nine whole months. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her father died when she was young, and she didn’t start school until age 8 or 10 because she was helping her mother. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He ate one piece, preserved die other two. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A story about a rabbi named Jairus, who pleaded with Jesus. ‘My daughter is dying. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once, in the night, my mother called me to her bed and told me that she could not endure the pain, that she wanted to die. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow, some of them survived while many others died. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They’d barely been able to stumble a hundred yards in this poisonous place without dying. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to scare you," he said, "but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She struggled against him, until they got tired of beating her and gave her a short break, which she used to invoke the understanding spirits of her grandmother, so that they would help her die. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I thought that the Count’s power over her would die away equally with her power of knowledge it would be a happy thought; but I am afraid that it may not be so. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I saw him before he died: his body was all swollen, very much like mine, with bloodless skin that looked like white rubber. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I can go anywhere. Once this sculpture is complete, you’ll agree that it’s the most amazing piece you’ve ever done. If not, I will gladly die.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to make Granddad feel in control when his world was spinning because Gran had died. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At sight of the man panting and dying there, she slips down to enfold him, crying out; then feels the spears, prodding her back and shoulders, and goes bound into slavery and grief. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julia Grant died on December 14,1902, at the age of seventy- six, and lies alongside her husband in a tomb in New York City. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom should have died in 1959, in an earthquake,” I said, putting my hand flat on the brick, right in the path of a black ant carrying something. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her father had died in Afghanistan when she was still a baby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I decided right then that I might be okay with dying at this point. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then, very sofdy, he said, "I dream of it sometimes. Of Reilly's dying. A green tent, candles, a woman screaming. And blood." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid of everything. That’s why I’m so ferocious. If the others found out, I’d just die. Now do be quiet while I eat my breakfast.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Christians go to heaven when they die.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She learned the words “hungry” and “eat,” even though hunger was a constant and the food she was given was barely life-sustaining, as well as verbs like “try” and “cry” and “die.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel could summon riches from the earth, but anyone who used them would suffer and die. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m the last of a dying breed. Look, I’ll throw in a can of pineapple. That should be a real treat.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Before I can stop him, ’80s Finch says, “There are different ways to die. There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And it will be a tragedy only because Sam died in a place she didn’t really belong to. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Though I am only able to show respect now, he thought, to behave towards my father as I should, because he is dying, he is almost gone away from me. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Of course they could not know that my mother had died three months before, suddenly, when a blood vessel in her brain burst. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chaol watched the last breath issue from Cain’s mouth, watched him die. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To hold her hand or wipe her brow or whatever you did when your loved ones were dying. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was a Jew when he died, not an observer of the Commandments, but not a convert, thank God. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t they let him die?” he asked Lily. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My cell died. I need to figure out what’s wrong with the thing. Make one call and the battery is drained.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All I find are a bag of corn and a box of waffles so old I think they’ve been there since before Olga died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But when she dies, the world—which is really the only world she can ever know—ends. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The raucous clamor of the bus died as if someone had pulled the plug. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

"This is our place. Craster keeps us safe. Better to die free than live a slave." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What reason is there for her to die? A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Behind the Yearlings sits an empty space in honor of Blackcliff's second tier of students, called Fivers because so many die in their fifth year. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I know nothing about it! Nothing! I almost died myself that day. Or have you forgotten?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One struck the knee of one of the captives, and it burst apart in a gout of blood and bone that left die man’s lower leg dangling by a rope of dark red tendon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Lady Tanda expects me to lunch with her. No doubt she will roastme a fatted calf. If it's near as fatted as her daughter, I'm like to rupture and die. And how is your leg?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“How come after Mom died,” I ask, pushing the uneaten lettuce and cucumbers and tomatoes around my plate, “you gave up on starting your own landscaping business?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

My will to talk to him gradually died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men were still being drafted, and Americans and Vietnamese were dying. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She died soon after from complications of the injuries. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Mostly it dies after flowering once,” Annabella had said, describing woad. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth tasted like a skunk had crawled into my throat and died. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think of the apples because Benny died in the orchard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The truth is that Lincoln, despite what he says, secretly believes he will die in office. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I read everyone the poem about my grandmother. I’m dying to see what your favorite food is.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In the market square, with a guard of SS and German soldiers, and half of Przemyśl there to watch him die. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Massa like to die hisself—couldn’t eat nor sleep. He wouldn’t even look at that baby. Paid no ’tention at all to that chile till he be ’bout six year old. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was so sweet then,” Ma said, “so sweet. Promise me that when I die you will destroy all of this.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Cattle far out on the mesa died when hay could not be trucked in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I wanted to die,” she said, “but today when the storm came and I thought the ship would sink, I... I...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, like now, I didn’t know they were dying. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you want me to comment on how you showed up in her rooms last night—the same night another Champion died?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The air was lonelier after the sound died. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or who carries a shell in their pocket so they don’t die. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“No catnip. If cats were attracted to my garden, the dog would make a terrible fuss. “Wouldn’t you, poor thing?” she said sweetly, leaning down to murmur to the dying mother dog. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I thought about my parents, who argued more often than any other Abnegation parents I knew, who nonetheless went through each day together until they died. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On Long Island in 1997, an inmate who annoyed his guards by calling out for methadone died of a ruptured spleen after two of them beat him in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chant, too, died out and became a mutter of words that Tree-ear could not hear. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Every Drevlian had died because some had assassinated the Grand Prince. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I know this because why else did she die two days before the lunar new year? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, his old mentor and nemesis, Anton Mauve, had died in early February. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She has the same smile she had on her face when she died, and her skin is glowing, as if something were lit inside her. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“While we were gone. He died because there was no one to help him search for the cattle after they were stolen.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Eleven years, until she died three months ago.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom forgot her phone charger! How’s she going to call and text us when her phone dies?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Others, too, who died because of mistakes. Prejudice.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to say how afraid of dying I had been. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She did not die. And she did not deserve to die.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the plants died, because no one remembered to water them or talk to them as Clara had done. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always knew instinctively the ones you could move, even though the greater part was buried in die earth, and he expected you to move the rock and not discuss it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I don't get out, I'm going to die. I'm as good as a dead man on holiday." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She dried her tears, straightened her head, and didn’t weep again until the day her mother died, seven years later, although it was not for lack of suffering, loneliness, and other causes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cry of a girl ready to be forgiven, years after having sold her sibling out to a pair of adults who would, a short time later, die on a distant continent. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Don't be so suspicious. He had a son who worked at the warfront. He died of the plague a few years ago." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And die fury she created in the women of the town was incredible—for she would lay their husbands once and then no more. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All of those monkeys were going to die, and they were going to die in a way that was almost unimaginable. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chains rattled as die portcullis was drawn upward, and the great gates opened to the creak of iron hinges. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had always hoped to win honor on the force, but what honor was there in dying of pneumonia in a bus station rest room? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop being noble! I don’t care if I die!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Katie had just finished telling him all that had happened since Johnny died. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered hearing and believing, as a child, that if you died in your dreams, you would die in real life. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

This person had died a long time ago. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been dying to show you this! And the really good rapids are on the other side.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I even have a funny notion that if I do die, maybe Peeta will be allowed to live. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him then about Mr. Kellerman's mom dying and he tells me he heard, on account of it being a small town and news travels fast. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She heaved a sigh so heavy it might’ve been mistaken for a dying breath. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ides of March dawned on Friday with a green and brown sky, the color of the water in a dying pond. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“When Castor died,” he says, “Pollux missed him too much, so he made a deal to share his immortality with him and that’s how they both ended up in the sky.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"No one in history has ever conquered the Russians. Now how many more people will have to die?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He says that hers dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps two-thirds of the people who suffer from this disease die within a year of its onset, and you’ve already survived for a couple of years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be, I wondered, that these children died every evening only to be resurrected by the loop, like some Sisyphean suicide cult, condemned to be blown up and stitched back together for eternity? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He knew that if she did not make her peace with her parents before one of them died, her remorse would be endless. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then the wind died away and the rain came streaming down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And Rowan was about to decide which one would die tomorrow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I want to say I’m sorry about the Bartlett Dirt—no one really believes the lies they print; it’ll all die down eventually—but then he writes: Meet me at the Quarry. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We entered Albert’s house from the garage and the sweet scents of broiled beef short ribs and spicy codfish soup and sesame-fried zucchini made me think of my own house before my mother died. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Carroll, I know that it is not much comfort to you that your husband died bravely, or honorably, but he did. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disappointingly, it turned out to be some banal utterances about dying and cutting cloth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the loser died, .the winner took hold of the nearest woman—not even the one they had been quarreling over—and had her there and then. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother died this summer. She was my mom’s mother, and that’s how come we forgot. I know it’s not an excuse.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Each mango-colored puff reminds me that even though I’m not dying of a brain tumor, I still don’t know what’s wrong with me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dead and dying insects of various species were conspicuous for about two weeks after the treatment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“What is it?” she asked, and felt a sharp horror at the hope that sneaked into her mind: that his mother had died. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I asked Devon about it and he said that was crazy and I shouldn’t blame Mom for having cancer and dying. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked all through the morning at die wood, breaking down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them in smaller pieces, storing them neatly beneath the overhang. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fascinated, I stared at the blind cave behind her face until the two lips met and moved and the dybbuk spoke out of its hiding place, "I'm so glad they're going to die." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The mules, once they entered the mines, seldom ever saw daylight again until they died and were hoisted up to the ground and sold to animal processing factories. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I could tell she was really worried and dying to find out what else I knew. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted the sword screaming, and moved on, closer, closer, but it was all coming apart; the whole world was dying. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my victims die with merciful swiftness, gone before their bodies touch the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They shriek and wail a long, high song with quivering soft palates, like babies dying of hunger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had honored Monterey by dying there and he had been degraded. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears had not kept her father out of prison, nor had crying made a difference when he’d died of smallpox. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the theatrical skull sings, “Storm fronts that linger upon the horizon; white plastic places where every thought dies in; swabbies and cocktails and parrots' bright wings; these are a few of his least-favorite things.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

An old man who sat down to die against a wall. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There he found a book with the most wonderful pictures of Calvinistic martyrs, dying horrible but prayerful deaths. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you had any sense, you would have let him die!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When word came that one of the babies had died, the whole island mourned. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had both died in another accident, this one a plane crash, a few weeks after he had been born. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The excitement of their escape had burned hot and then died, like a birchwood fire. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

As Isidore knocked on the apartment door, the television died immediately into nonbeing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In die songs, the knights never screamed nor begged for mercy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If the pilot died, if he died and Derek couldn’t fly, there would be nobody up front to control the plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Trails that they did not even know existed were apparent, now that the trees were bare and the undergrowth had died down. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’ve found out pretty much what happened since. My dad died first. Did you know that?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since it always died down when the night was half over, I knew how long I had been traveling and how far away the dawn was. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been dying to see him, to speak to him in person and see for myself that he was okay. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And one guy’s brother died of leukemia when he was in third grade. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I first appeared in this doorway two weeks after Gramps died. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then grown-up birds confuse those plastic scraps with food and feed them to their chicks, and the babies die of starvation even though their parents are feeding them just like they should. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But if I eat all of it, I would never die. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The world isn’t the safest place ever, we know that because of Christian and everyone else dying on the daily. But I should’ve shown you some risks are worth it.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I kept clicking back to this one wall post, written two months ago, nine months after she died, by one of her friends. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As she did, I told her, “I’ve been thinking a lot about the highlighted parts. If you go to the end of ‘Song of Myself,’ she highlights this stuff about dying. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I knew that die wood floating up on the beach consisted mostly of branches or stumps that had been in the water for weeks or months. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really mean of you to say that the only lives that matter are the ones that are lived for something or die for something. That’s a really mean thing to say to me.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He never recovered from his injuries, and shortly after Christmas that year he died of heart failure at the age of thirty-four, leaving Marian’s mother to raise their three girls. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Ruefully I considered that the truths I sought had died with him, and the only other person who could shed fight on these questions, Hamlet, was himself a mystery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They included preserving the last words of dying people, recording books for blind people to hear, announcing clock time, and teaching spelling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what she’s talking about, only that after being friends with him my whole life, I am supposed to leave Mr. Sheep Sheep to die. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And all of a sudden, there I am thinking about this old dude, dying. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it was disturbing my dying. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die, accidentally, and never have the chance to walk up the stairs in the auditorium and gracefully receive my hard-earned diploma. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The storms always raged across Florida, wreaking havoc, and then died somewhere overland or in the Gulf. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t speak it after she died, and after he died that’s all he ever said—her name. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If they do not get water soon, they will all die." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, Sigurd had stabbed himself with the magical dagger, but she had wanted him to die. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I had started to think about doing bad stuff. Like how I treated you. Last October, on Halloween, my brother Jermaine died,” I told Rose. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

That some even read the inscribed memorial for two men who died so many years ago. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

These conflicts are very brutal, and the victim may die. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He died soon after making this bequest of his life’s work to the stunned younger man, who only weeks before had been a penniless refugee. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, boy, we found her. You hit her with a brick, but she didn’t die right away. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’m ninety-eight percent sure the queen would’ve knighted that guy had he not died so young, may his soul rest in peace.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

With die camp squared away he brought in more wood. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remains were so badly decomposed that it was impossible to determine exactly when McCandless had died, but the coroner could find no sign of massive internal injuries or broken bones. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samantha didn’t know, and even if she did, she would die before she would discuss my parents’ private business. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

You would die out there for sure—shredded by a cougar or thudded with a tomahawk or just left to wander to a stumbling, confounded death. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I saw someone die, and I had nightmares about it for a long time.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It will kill my parents if I die too.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle will die if he doesn’t get to say good-bye to her,” JoJo said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was deeply saddened to hear Ali had died. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The flame took hold of the backpack for a moment, then smoked and smoldered and died out. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Considering the fate of so many who had died in the Gilo, he was fortunate. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

James Abram Garfield had "wrecked the once grand old Republican party, and for this he dies." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apparently the fact that I was going blind was not considered an emergency; there were dying people around me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen men killed, and I had watched men die of starvation and cold right in front of me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hope and pray and wish that no one else dies because of my selfishness. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At once, the street’s bustle died, and apprehensive gazes lifted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I know about this a little bit. Sometimes, if you drink, it’s dangerous to stop too suddenly. Makes you sick. People can die of it.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s your choice: Get rich helping me, or die poor.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Six months later, Great-great-aunt Florentine died—-just like that—in the vegetable garden. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they were going to die she wanted those to be her last words. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Actually, she seems to be hanging pretty tough about the Sammick situation. We just got the call. Emma died this morning.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Try not to die getting here,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But then she moved her hand to cover mine and I almost died. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But they died because...when the copilot asked questions, his implied suggestions were very weak. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Three years later, he died of medical complications associated with alcoholism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Each day,” Kerry charged, “someone has to die so that President Nixon won’t be, and these are his words, ‘the first president to lose a war.’ Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Otto remembered what Grandma said when he asked if people who never got pulled from the creek looped until they died. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was lucky that there were still paramedics around to bring her to a hospital, or else she would have died. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, Stanton’s father died at age eighty-six. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Someone may have drowned here, he thought grimly—at the same spot where he could very well die of thirst. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

What I can say for certain is that I would rather Maman hadn’t died. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“But then Abby died. It was supposed to be me, Will. Everyone was ready for that.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Why are you interested in his phone when we’re about to die?” wondered Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

And those they do not kill will die anyway at the destruction they see at the loss at the loss of the children the loss will destroy the rest. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this is of little concern for Victor since he’s not dying today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They don't want to die any more than I do. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both their mothers had died in childbirth, though from the stories the other women still told, Somkit's birth had been more memorable and involved feet showing up where a head was supposed to be. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I asked Devon about it and he said that was crazy and I shouldn’t blame Mom for having cancer and dying. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t believe in calming spirits that walk by your side after your friend or your sister or your father has died. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But when he brought a cupped hand to his mouth and felt die cold lake water trickle past his cracked lips and over his tongue he could not stop. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he resolved he would not die, even with a half-dead body, because he wanted to come home again. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “We will move die headquarters forward today, this moming.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said that’s what helped him get on with life after Mom died. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he wanted to join his wife, that it was his right to die. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t with my baba when he died,” he said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As if to emphasize his thoughts the mosquitos—with die fire gone and protective smoke no longer saving him—came back in thick, nostril-clogging swarms. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when a ship wrecked in the Graveyard, people sometimes died—mariners or lifesavers or both—and everyone on the Elizabeths felt the stab of such disaster. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew anything for sure yet, but it looked like Charlie might have died from alcohol poisoning or asphyxiating on his own vomit. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“How is she still teaching? Do you remember those notes I hid all over her classroom that said, ‘You’re an ugly hag, and you’ll die alone.’?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

That’s why she didn’t remarry after Grandpa Louis died, and that was when Pa was twelve and Uncle Darnell had been just born. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The day I found out my dad died,” Summer said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He married a young woman called Giulia in 1562, and Galileo was the eldest of seven children, three of whom seem to have died in infancy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

His cry faded as he realized he wasn’t going to die. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Longstreet got up quickly and put on die old blue robe and the carpet slippers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The cheeses hardening at the edges, the sulfur- drenched grapes, luscious and shiny as wax, plumped with blood from the dying field workers of California. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she found any before she died. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I saw how you looked at her. That day when she brought us to the Commandant’s house before the Trial of Courage. Like she was water and you were just dying of thirst.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But if she were, she would’ve told all her loved ones, unlike her best friend, who didn’t come out and tell her he’s dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In my heart, I know Mama was holding my little brother’s hand as they died.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you find out about—my mother dying?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And after all, Amos ... he died just when he’d won the tournament. He must have been happy.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Generations of Masks have trained and served and died without a whisper of the Trials. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But these heresies died when he read her last letter. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But,” continued Jeanne, “I’m not sure I want to die for them.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Marla asks me why nobody in our family came to help me and Momma out when my daddy died. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I knew already that he was there when she died. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird cut down toward the lake, then, seeing it couldn't land in the water, turned and flew back up die hill into the trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Casualties had been light, and the few campers who’d previously died and come back to life, like Gwen, hadn’t been taken to the Underworld. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You only know about the ones who died,” David says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I choked and coughed and thought I was going to die. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tell them: hand over your money or die. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"Agent Iparis, head this up. Check on him now and then and make sure he doesn't die before his execution date." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather died nobly for a cause in which he deeply believed.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It proved to be a bony, underfed, and dispirited animal; but it did not look like dying just yet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The last of the Sillington sisters died and left their land to Clarion College. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day felt heavy and oppressive as he crossed the bailey back to the Tower of die Hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In former times they would send you a little package, of the belongings: what he had with him when he died. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it when my dad and brother died, or was it before that? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jason smiled dryly, like he’d just found out he would die in an embarrassing way. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Easy for you to say. You’re everybody’s golden boy, the son of Jupiter. The only person who ever accepted me was Bianca, and she died! I didn’t choose any of this. My father, my feelings...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stanley was relieved to be left alone, but he was so thirsty he felt as if he would die if he didn't get something to drink soon. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe, Ophie realized, her best days had withered and died with Daddy just like Mama’s had. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They could make him die a thousand deaths and then lock him away for eternity—and it would truly be eternity, because he would never give them the satisfaction of gleaning himself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I was so exhausted I didn’t care if they shot me or not or if I lived or died.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But he did try to calculate how many died from Spanish disease and brutality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk I’ll feel her girlish walk take over, and die movement brings back a kind of emotion, a desolate and gossipy sympathy for the girls I see coming home from school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Alexander said, “Your mother, before she died, was very good friends with Mr. Shears.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When a plane went down they mounted extensive searches and almost always they found die plane within a day or two. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At what point did you betray our family? Before our parents died, or after?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my friends had passports where the child died. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Do forgive me. The Grand Maester befouled himself in dying, and the stink was so abominable that I thought I might choke.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then rising from within me is a single thought: I don’t want to die. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The library had some notes the doctor published. Dr. Eastman. They said nothing about another baby. Just that one little boy, who didn’t die on Penikese.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The cells had died and drifted away, leaving holes in the carpet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so he died, with still a year left before his grandson was old enough to take the throne. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Chess had seen her look exactly like that in the days and weeks and months after Dad died, every time she left the house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Where the bark was peeling from die trunks it lifted in tiny tendrils, almost fluffs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s real close to the colored high school. The cutest colored boys in the whole universe work there. They’ll just die if they see me with you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. This place is my favorite. The collard greens are to die for!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"Augurs cannot die," she says through gritted teeth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If I threw it into the dying fire, the smell might wake someone. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Did they prove anything scientifically about us before they killed us? No. They killed us first and then tried to get some scientific proof about why we should die.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane had portholes, and as soon as we could see in the half- light, my comrades pressed their faces to die glass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the school was a garbage dump perched on the edge of a dying marsh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the same propaganda reaches into the hospital clinic and operating room to jeopardize the lives of the sick and dying, it is nothing short of criminal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It don’t matter which way I die,” he said; but his voice choked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was prepared to struggle for, to kill, and, if necessary, to die for my Führer and country,” said Henry Metelmann. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The brown leather collar that belonged to the family dog who died when Bailey was nine. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If he died tomorrow, he would already have seen more than other shepherds, and he was proud of that. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs started to bark and howl, kept it up for a few minutes—the racket died down. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But nothing is any good if you die.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I feel so lonely, baby, I feel so lonely, baby, I feel so lonely I could die. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now all the dying around me, and all the killing, was making me look at myself again, hoping to find something more than the kid I was. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe the most obvious one of all, “Let the houseplants die.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If Pah didn’t get him first, Virgil figured one of three things would happen: he could suffocate, starve, or die of thirst. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s like saying ‘I’m sorry you’re going to die but at least people are going to bring you flowers.’” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And she removed her mask and treated the dying girl face-to-face. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dusk: the activities of the city were beginning to die down, the noise was decreasing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never cross a man not afraid to die . . . now, let’s get to work!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I returned, it was to be sacrificed or to see those whom I most loved die under the grasp of a dæmon whom I had myself created. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When my husband died”—Jesse could hardly imagine Mrs. Myers ever having had a husband—“people kept telling me not to cry, kept trying to make me forget.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She could not stay here in the rain waiting to die, for she was too cold and hungry and uncomfortable and alive. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since his father had died long before, and his mother died in 1586, he had to make his own way in life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

This antelope had just died—and not from starvation. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or Robert E. Lee, who, many years after the war, in a dying delirium, announced, “Strike the tent!” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I put the iron down real slow, feel that bitter seed grow in my chest, the one planted after Treelore died. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then the clock must’ve struck ten because all at once the buzzing generators outside sputtered and died, as did the music from downstairs and the streetlight that had been shining through my window. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His own mother had fallen to pieces when his father died, abandoning the house he grew up in and moving back to Calcutta, leaving Shukumar to setde it all. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

First wife died of cancer five years ago. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to know the history of this town because if it dies out someone will have to be around to write the obit.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had twice narrowly escaped dying in riding accidents that had landed him in the hospital for months on end, wiped him out financially, and caused near crippling injury. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could you tell Mr. Goldman that the gods had died, when they lived so strongly in him? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Limerick is talking about this page and they’re dying to get their hands on it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If one of them found him, he’d at least like them to know that he’d died in a life-or-death fight with a vicious reptile. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He quickly cut die neck with his hatchet cut the feet off the same way, and in his hand he held something like a small chicken with a dark, fat, thick breast and small legs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago our best friends died. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In case Billy died, which he didn’t, half of the tag would mark his body and half would mark his grave. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact was that it had been decided once and for all that the patient was to die. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The one grandparent Molly remembers, her mother’s mother, died of cancer when she was three. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He might have died and you wouldn’t know the difference,” said Ron in disgust. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I had been a Methodist for the first nine years of my life, before my father died and we moved and turned Unitarian. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I wish,” cried she, “that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the ghost who always died violently before reappearing at her place at the table, and Ophie worried that she did not have time for much conversation before the woman choked. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“No. They got hit by the arrows from the sky. Both of them. They died real nasty.”Tears welled up until they spilled over and washed down her dirty cheeks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mosquitoes had been out in force for a while, but after the sun died they were chased into hiding by the suddenly crisp darkness. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Deborah died in the clothes she wore to bed that night, including my hand-me-down soccer jersey that she loved. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t let my soul die to the point where I lose my art. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He gave it to me right away on the day Benny died. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Even if both of them had died, however, Lady Maege had other daughters, some with children of their own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her only baby, a two-year-old boy, died hard of the fever two years pass and ever since that happened, Mrs. Brown was being bothered by spells. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I stab him. And if I want him to die, he’ll die?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Because—because one day before my father died you looked at the little things I had made and said they showed skill. You said, ‘Perhaps, when he is older...’” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And many millions of them died, but to those that were left it was nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Each of the nine slaves had died with his throat cut by his fellow’s blade. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"You die," he told him, and he did. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Devon said it was a sick dog who would attack them and make them all die. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It waren’t like a rat had curled up in a hole somewhere and died then commenced to swelling up and rotting, but it waren’t far from that. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was after Grandpa Carter had moved in with us after Grandma died. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We are ready to die in defense of our people. I think it would take just one or two well-planned attacks to wipe out all those Long Knives.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

This was what I had heard under the braided rug, that when you die an angel carries you off to a place called Heaven. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I swear to God whenever I think about Khalil falling into that life, it’s like watching him die all over again. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she said, “I’ll ask my parents if you can come home with me one weekend. That would be fun. They’ve been dying to meet you. Score! “Have you told them about me?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murphy’s husband died a decade ago, I learn, leaving her with this big old house and little money. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Everybody else learned it later, when Clara died and the house lost its flowers, its nomadic friends, and its playful spirits and entered into an era of decline. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was too young to die like that. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could one find out about life when one was about to die? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When my mom died, I remember Maggie teaching my dad how to do my hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m so embarrassed I could die!” she howls. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Since when?” he said, as if he were saying, “When did she die?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Because the more time that went by, the more likely your secret died with me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In other parts of the hospital chalky people with aged, blue lips were dying on time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He might get us up in the middle of the night and make us promise to die for Ireland but he never barked like this. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I want to crawl into a hole and die, but I make myself smile, and everyone claps. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I had a brother who died and my sister... I don’t know where she is,” she said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad is stumbling up the stairs, making a speech about how we all have to die for Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We thought we were going to die, but he let us go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And being on this trip was supposed to make her happy, happy for the first time since her husband died last year. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“When April died, something in May died, too. She never was normal after that. It seemed like the world itself became May’s twin sister.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m tired of seeing people I care about die. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

How can you ever be prepared to die? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dying would suck, but my crewmates dying would be way worse. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it would only burn for a few minutes, and then I’d die— It was scary that he even considered it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The blaze in the fireplace had died down to embers, only whispers and ashen shadows remaining of the roaring fire of a few hours ago. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I told her about Mikayla’s mom and the lab and how Mom and I grew an orchid all our own, but Mom let it die. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“My mother died while I was being born,” I explained. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Could you actually say that the baby died, since it had never breathed? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We all die eventually, Mr. Franklin,” Styx said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Some masters free their slaves when they die,” said Penny. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think she knew she was dying. She handed me wet rags with this tiny dragon inside.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Everything that comes alive seems to be in trade for something that dies, cell for cell. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Polio. Tuberculosis. A schoolteacher died from meningitis that year, remember, Gloria? She was so young. Pretty thing, too.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It was over by Maxwell Street. Victor was living at a settlement house there. Before he died, he went back to the old ways, yarmulke and all.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Exception 2.—Words ending in ie and dropping the e, by Rule I. change the i into y to prevent the doubling of the i: as, die + ing = dying; lie + ing = lying. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few terrible moments they seemed to be coming closer, but they died away again, swallowed up by the music coming from the parking lot and filling the night like a foul smell. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They say when you die your brain lives for awhile longer, and maybe he could’ve heard me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stared at the gun, feeling that I was going to die at any moment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we will go to Ginen, to live with the spirits, to be with everyone who has come and has died before us. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But at least you got to know your mom, even though you were young when she died. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Arya turned to look, die saw that he was wearing his helm, all shiny steel and great curving horns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The jockey lived hard and lean and tended to die young, trampled under the hooves of horses or imploding from the pressures of his vocation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to know she was going to die. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be surprised if I managed to die in a place that promises risk-free thrills. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And so he steeled himself to say what he had known he must say ever since Dumbledore had died. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“And I’m dying to meet her. I’ll tell my mom we have to work on a project after school next week. We’ll go then, okay?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cut off the head and the body would die. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It’ll scare you and manipulate you until you go crazy, die, or they find the cure. And guess which one of those things will probably happen first.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Cebolleta people salvaged lumber and tin from the shack, but they had no use for the barbed wire any more; the last bony cattle wandering the dry canyons had died in choking summer duststorms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Most rabbits here die of old age, unless the Owsla kill them off,’ she said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he avoid serving in the Great War, or did he die somewhere near here under another name? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bruno Latour maintained that the fact that the bacterium that causes tuberculosis has been discovered in the lungs of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, did not mean that Ramses died of tuberculosis. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some were still on the island after die storm. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many died from gunshots, thirst, and hunger, but Abraham and I continued on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later he was accidentally shot by his own troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville and died eight days later. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Aberdeen Lake” sounds romantic and mysterious, like it might be located somewhere in die Scottish Highlands, as opposed to an abandoned outpost at the edge of Death Valley. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

His friends left him at the house thinking that they had helped him fulfill his promise to his wife not to die in his concubine's bed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He died in his sleep on July 26, 1926, at the age of eighty-two. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the phone call comes in the middle of the night, it isn't to tell us someone has died. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The memories haunt me: One second I am there beside her, falling asleep, and the next, I am watching her die. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The jam was still hot and on its sticky scarlet surface, thick pink froth was dying slowly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked calm, at peace, like she did not mind dying now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“King Argaven’s child was born this morning, and died within the hour.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to be glad when she’d watched someone die. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"I don't know why you think the Revolution was so great, Sonia. It says here that some people even turned their own relatives in. Thousands died at the guillotine." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many of us became ill through it; Wolf actually died of inflammation of the lung. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four,” called a monstrously fat Yunkishman from die litter where he sprawled like a leviathan. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was not Mount Sebastian, it was another world, where there were no pretty poems or midterm exams, a place where men died because of carelessness and gross stupidity. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monks who were left added to their own the duties of those who had died. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“No need to be sorry. He died eight years ago. Anyway, I am ninety- one years old. Not many people I once knew are still alive.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had some gossip I was dying to tell them—something about one of the newcomers—and so for a while it was just me blabbing on while they nodded and asked the odd question. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow rags fluttered from railings and door knockers—pus yellow, fear yellow—to mark the homes of the sick and the dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing about its smile that looked like Joey to me was that die angel had a great big dimple too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen him baptized, kicking like a mule and howling, and! she had seen him weep when his mother died; he was a right young man then, Florence said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was because I was guilty and a part of me wanted to lose everything; a grieving, ailing part of me wanted to die. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But we had all learned something about dying, and about trying to keep each other alive. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tentative, A’Leia steps off and zooms, screaming, “I’m going to die.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I am dying for an Easy-Bake oven,” I said passionately, “and a tea set!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The fruits swell and burst crimson and the tree shrivels and dies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for the screen to flicker and die. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My father had taken off only two days of work when Lynn died. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was how I learned that he had died exactly as the soldier reported. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was at my window, handing money across the counter to some customer I hardly knew, and it just hit me. The lake is dying. It’s dying. I had to leave.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At home at one or two his mother would be putting away die lunch dishes and getting ready for her exercise class. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you will die,” my coach agreed, laughing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberries, huckleberries, viburnums, dogwood, bayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying before the chemical barrage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You were there— you talked with them right before they died. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t I have died with my family? she thought wildly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall had risen to her feet, and the mournful hum in the Hall died away at once. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One of their siblings had died from being suffocated by the others, who were piled in on top of it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

During one, my mother got pregnant with their second son, who died a few days after he was born. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Still, the Angels died at the pinnacle of success. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He mounted the black horse and rode back toward the camp and die evening. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited till I heard the voices of all the doctors die away. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Oh yes, this is the memorial wall where they put the names of the ones who died, she pointed out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander the Great had died more than two thousand years ago. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He picked out a casket, chose a plot, ordered a headstone, and paid for die death notices in the newspaper. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Milligan had said he would die before he let any harm come to them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I reacquainted myself with the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Jackson who died fifteen years ago. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered the milk-white face of the screaming boy and realized with a jolt that he had died a year later. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“But then what? I couldn’t talk to you, I couldn’t come over. I mean, Maya, your dad didn’t die, he just moved ten minutes away.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And now he has jumped more than a dozen times and filled the sacks along his back with air and he cannot go down deep to die where I cannot bring him up. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all he had been through, to die like this. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dothraki went sprawling in the mud, bounced up with a knife in hand, and died with Aggo's arrow through his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He remembered what his grandmother had told him about the nature of his gift, and how he had to leave her here to die. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He knew that today was the day that the animal he had so often petted, and felt jealous of, and admired, was surely going to die. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“My sister just died and you want to throw me a party? I’m already fifteen!” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I told her about how I sometimes feel like I’m going to die at mealtimes or choke on my own saliva. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But going into a containment zone to perform a necropsy on an animal that had died of an amplified unknown hot agent was something a little different. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, and it's good to die beneath God's great tent of sky." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One survivor said that ten percent of the city’s population died, while another estimated that ten percent had fled the city in search of food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought our neighborhood was bad, but if I had to live in the suburbs, I think I’d just lie down and die. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Very funny. Notice how I’m about to die laughing.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he died, Dr. King had told us we had moved from the Civil Rights era to the human rights era. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time that little guy dies,” he sniffed, “I want to bawl like a baby.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next it was Day, who died of a stroke, surrounded by his family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even while she was dying, she worried about her little sister. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane shook and shuddered, and Shadow wondered, coldly and idly, if he was going to die. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

If Dolores knew, she would crawl up in her blanket of affectations and die circumspectly. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick was afraid to bring it all up again, but he was dying of curiosity. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orpheus Fisher, Marian’s sweetheart and her husband of more than forty years, died in 1985 at the age of eighty-five. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was concerned only with babies dying. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Twelve hours ago I received the phone call telling me I’m going to die today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

With blood coming from his eyes and ears and nose, just like when he had died. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was just a few weeks after the authorities released him, still under house arrest, to his brother’s house in Bloemfontein that he died. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all died the same, let them all be buried the same. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the part where Soledad’s mother dies and I have to cry, I draw on the valley of tears inside me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Sudan, thinking he was going to die of Ebola, he had discovered that a bottle of Scotch is the only good treatment for exposure to a filovirus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my avatar died here, it would mean starting over with nothing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For the first time since I read his file I wondered if you could actually die from having bad kidneys. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Who stood with all those other souls who took runaways into their homes, fed them, carried them north on their backs, died for them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She knew she could not look, so she closed her eyes and crept past it out of the bathroom, shutting die door behind her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It sat in the curve of Carpenter’s Road, which, in four blocks, made up all die sporting life available in the Bottom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Big Brownie is old and ’bout to die. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

What stories were planted in the ground that had died before she got there. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I knew that older people died, and I knew that people could get sick and die, but not kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His wife had died, and he had no children, so there was no one to check on him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to shoo the dogs away, to tell them that what they were debating of eating was horrible filth and would make them sick, or, possibly, die. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just used me and waited for her to die. I’m not going with you, Finn. These folks are my family now.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Georges Melies died sometime after the Great War, and many, if not all, of his films are lost. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I got to keep an eye on you. And as for you,” he added grimly, speaking to Tuck, “you better hope that feller don’t die on you. I’ll be back soon as I can.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was playing several small roles, my most dramatic being that of a soldier who dies a bloody death in one of the battle scenes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

No lambs are dropped, or calves, and these fat cattle never die. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Instead, I shall refuse to let you die.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pray to the Little Flower because she died of the consumption herself and she’d understand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You not die, Missus,” Amari said in her most soothing voice. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he died tomorrow, it would be because God was not willing to change the future. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t, they hit you over the head with die poor boy every time they get a chance.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Tonight you could hardly say two words to me because I didn’t tell you about one of the worst experiences of my life. You ever seen somebody die?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Rainbow cloaks hung down their backs, and the crystals that crested their greathelms glittered in die lamplight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had died a decade earlier in 1936—he had been murdered following a dispute over mica mines—leaving my grandmother to raise five young boys. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When the wind died down, I finally opened my eyes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Look, Tug, what if that knife hit him in the heart? He could die.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The other four kittens—Frank, Derek, Spike, and Priscilla—had moved to Finn’s barn, where the mice were now busily dying of despair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was frightening to think of missing mass on Sunday, then dying, and for that one mortal sin to go to hell forever. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had died when he was just three years old, and he had struggled with drugs and alcohol before he decided to enlist. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He sounded like an old man, maybe someone speaking with his dying breath. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“So now, they might not die at all.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He saw irresponsible lawmen die and conscientious ones, too. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Had his mother died, or one of his sisters? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Haupt learned that the baby had died a few days after being born. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

By the time the truck stopped, he tells Lourdes, several men had died of asphyxiation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, “Rise up, take to the streets! Join my comrades and me in the mountains! When you die for your country, you do not die in vain!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doña Cony had something sad happen. Her baby, her youngest son, died yesterday.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She said she wanted to die that way rather than be killed by the Martians. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“They’ll never go for it. The world is dying, Percy. Every day it gets worse. The wild ... I can just feel it fading. I have to find Pan.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

My sister, only twelve at the time, died there too. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a good chance they would die in the mountains and that would be that. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Towns that needed more than a house raft to get to die merchants of Medallion. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Frank and Hazel both glanced at him, like Please don’t die. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Some of them, in fact, did not ever find their way out again and died there in the dark heart of the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Grandfather told me in the most offhand manner that we’d both died. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always been Sapo but that year, after biting Blessington, he started turning into someone who wasn’t afraid to die. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know yet. It has to do with a worker who died there.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His mother, his father, and his brothers all died in the Holocaust. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Personally, all he had wanted to do was die after he had broken up with Birdie. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

However, the epidemic dies out for any of several reasons, such as being cured by modern medicine, or being stopped when everybody around has already been infected and either becomes immune or dies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet of course it was a British prison ship he’d died on. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look, but it's hard to see anything and it smells like something died in the storm drain, which come to think of it, it probably did. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

His parents had operated the copper shop on Main Street, but Sam chose a different path after they died. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He looks deep into the past and finds dying stars. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Phaedra, in her anguish, desperate, seeing no help for her anywhere, resolved to die and let no one know why. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy had either lived in foster care or prison ever since his grandma died. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“He died trying to get out of the apartment.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But too many men have gone to hunt and have staggered back into the fort with arrows in their bellies, only to die in agony a few days later. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, though. Everyone thinks it. And people still tell me, ‘Your father died for the cause.’” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bri died on my birthday after thanking God that I was still alive. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m doing this, showing you I’m not afraid to die,” I told them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t take it, my brother will die. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It happens once a year, kinda like a volcano, which is why this place is blocked off. We’d both die.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was going to die because his life insurance money would have taken care of his family. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never gone to college, which gave him the wrong idea about himself, but the only reason he hadn’t was because he’d been forced into getting a job after his parents died. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Meggie’s voice died away as if the wind had blown it from her lips. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On one or two evenings a temporary breeze raised their hopes and sent the ship ahead a few miles, only to die away again. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Poison roulette. Pour a row of shot glasses and mix serpaise venom into one of them. You find out you lost when you die gasping.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He became a full staff member of the Mount Wilson Observatory, learned many of the scientific underpinnings of his work and died rich in the respect of the astronomical community. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad tried really hard not to die of boredom, and he kept messing up which girl was which, saying, “We like her?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were there together, but they had died alone. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, once the excitement died down, Hazel decided to visit Coach Hedge, since he could talk to animals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My grandfather has died, and I’m about to go to my first funeral. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I went out to the stables, I saw that Samuel had died in his sleep. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would be a good idea to call him at work and let him know that I was about to die, and that I would miss him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"The king's not dead, that's only summoning bells. One tower tolling. When the king dies, they ring every bell in the city." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If you tell her the child is dying in your arms she’ll say the doctor is in the country riding his horse. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Whatever happens, don’t go outside! The best thing to do is to stay put! The Germans are capable of herding the entire population of Holland into Germany, where they’ll all die.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I could choke on it by mistake, an undignified way to die. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That only made it hurt worse when they died. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If you believe that,” Alex said, “that we’re all going to die anyway, why are you here? I mean right here, right now, standing on line for food you’re not even going to eat?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I thought, Maybe Khosrou will die here and no one will ever have to say his name wrong. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"My grandfather died last year, and I still miss him. Where's your mother?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“She be an orphan now. Her mum and pa, they died,” he explained. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope one day you will be dying of thirst,” I told her, “so that, then, someone can deny you water the same way you did to them!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s just,” I begin—but it dies on my tongue. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I could fee1 warm ooze soaking into my sock, little dying snake heads tugging at my shoelaces. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For one moment just stay awake, notice your dying flowers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” he says, pointedly looking at Shaan, who does not seem to care at all if he dies of hypothermia. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I tug Ben’s sleeve, whispering, “These are graves, too. Holes where the towers collapsed, where people died.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

What kind of person could leave something so small, so precious, to die of heat and starvation? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He died ten minutes before the bearers came around to take him down to surgery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The triangle at left, defined by the mast and two ropes, includes the dead and dying. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

She crouched in the loft for a long time before her eyes adjusted enough for her to be sure that he was die one on the end. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“All right, bleeding skies. It was just a joke. Of course I’ll fight to win. I’m not planning to die, that’s for sure. But what about you? Don’t you want to become Empress?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother—the one who once wrote about science and magic and miracles—let it die. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I guess that’s what happens when people find out your mom just died. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nobody cares to guess how many people might die, but the potential economic cost has been put as high as $7 trillion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There's no backup, and they think I'll die instantly without it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was talking about my mum and dad dying.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But she clearly would die and likely was dying—this thinness, this weakness, this evasion. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then, as I watched in amazement, my avatar reappeared, fading back into existence in the exact same location where I’d died a few seconds earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The shoes are too big—passed on from an older boy who died at the orphanage last month—but Reverend Hunt says I can’t go barefoot in the New World. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, sweet death to die with the dear dead I love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He argued that we are so helpless at birth that, if the first human infants had been put into the world on their own, they would immediately have died. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? I know you didn’t say what I think you said. You were die cryingest little clown there ever was.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please die right now, I mumbled in my head, where more and more activity was taking place. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But he died long before it got done. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I die... it says on what looks like a giant chalkboard. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Probably yer gonna die, and tho I try to cover it up with other Noise it’s such an unfair thing it’s hard not to have it right at the front. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Both died as followers, doing the work they were commanded to do. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He sent to die 83rd to tell them of his move to the left, asking if perhaps they couldn’t come a little this way and help him out. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps their owner had died, and they had run away together, or perhaps they had been lost from some car traveling across country, and were trying to make their way back to familiar territory. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t bear it anymore. I came up here to die or go crazy. Both, I guess. I’m just glad they let me.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For that, my father came back to the United States and died. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ricardo, who was recovering from stomach surgery but slowly dying of bone cancer anyway, met him at Rael’s store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not want to watch my twenty-two fellow tributes die. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“His wife died a month ago, and his business has been a wreck since. Now that he’s visiting you, can we expect a turnaround?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have demonstrated that the first farmers in many areas were smaller and less well nourished, suffered from more serious diseases, and died on the average at a younger age than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the deep bush, where you could die any number of ways, the war was nakedly and aggressively boring. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That,” she says slowly, “was like watching a clown die at a children’s birthday party.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A murmur rose among the boys and died away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Had he refused to give the belt he would surely have died. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Death-Cast did not call Patrick “Peck” Gavin because he’s not dying today, though he was expecting the alert before his attacker received the call himself. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If he does not eat, he understands, he will die. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

America and its Western allies, in contrast, saw Stalin's intransigence as the actions of a new Hitler, someone bent on undoing all they had fought and died for. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In die afternoon, toward evening, with his face smoke smeared and his sldn red from die heat, he finally began to think ahead to what he needed to do. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Menoeceus had not died in vain; in the end the Thebans prevailed and of the seven champions all were killed except Adrastus only. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no trees, no birds nor other free critter, no water, just noise and buildings that made you feel you was this close to dying. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Daily she prays, “Don’t let me die on this trip. If I die, they will live on the street.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I watched it all from above, sick with sympathy as they cried and screamed that they would die if they were not allowed to board. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For seconds he did not know where he was, only that the crash was still happening and he was going to die, and he screamed until his breath was gone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Speak of it and you will die,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The more education and income people have, the less likely they are to have and die of heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and many types of cancer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The whole table mimics my gesture to show respect for the dying. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had died soon after New Year’s Day and now nearly six months later I was just finally seeing that Blu was gone for good. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That I never had a real interest in her until she died because I’m a horrible and selfish human being? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He clutched die singer’s arm with a maimed hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When my mother died of tuberculosis, my father’s greatest concern was Anni. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could wait by the bed of a dying person and then when a transport angel comes, I could follow the angel and the dead person up to heaven. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It traveled in blood, and the bleeding victim did not touch very many other people before dying, and so the virus did not have many chances to jump to a new host. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Beckendorf died she’d been getting worse, and every time I looked at her, it made me angry about his death all over again. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sadly, Stanton died before he could join the court. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was in Tartarus, dying from gorgon’s blood plus a dozen other agonizing curses, while he watched his girlfriend stumble around, helpless and blind and believing he’d abandoned her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She tipped the forebear forward and we hurtled down some more, and whatever protests I was going to make died in my throat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Eight days she had lingered there before the Mountain gave the command to march, and every day she had seen someone die. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Here’s what I don’t get: why everyone makes such a big deal out of dying. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“If it builds too much, she could die. And the longer we wait to relieve it, the more damage she’ll likely experience.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock she started dinner, and only when it was cooking did she take a break, sitting at die kitchen table to consult her dream book on the meaning of her previous night’s dreams. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And after Mr. Shears had gone to work she made a telephone call to the office and took what is called Compassionate Leave, which is when someone in your family dies or is ill. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His father had owned an Italian restaurant, and his mother died of cancer when he was young. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I stop and look back at the girl but her face is just the same, just the same as ever, and is it cuz she crashed and her parents died? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Man...I don’t know. A pretty long time. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when, but it got much worse after Olga died. I know that for sure.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She woke up feeling much weaker and out of sorts than the first time she had died. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Well, I told myself, if Granny died, I would leave home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I turned and ran into the nearest ghost—Clyde—and committed Pacicide, dying for the first time in the game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But, Lord love ye, miss, I ain’t afraid of dyin’, not a bit; only I don’t want to die if I can help it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Put you in a room right next to the one where they’ll strap you to that gurney, stick those needles in your arm, and let you die in front of a room full of strangers. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, when old Mr. Mancilli, one of our gym teachers, died of a heart attack, a lot of the kids from school went to the funeral. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is just one person. These people think she is infinitely valuable. But she is just one more who will die, if not now, then later.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Far more Native Americans died in bed from Eurasian germs than on the battlefield from European guns and swords. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"He died a bitter man," reported a colleague. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A rattlesnake will die in an hour of full sun. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some kind of water animal that came up to the sand to ... to do what? lo do something with the sand, to play and make a pile in die sand? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to ask why the tsar sent men to fight, then, if he was so concerned with people dying. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“It gets worse the more old I get, I think. Just between you and me, I wasn’t doing too good over the holidays. I hated the holidays. I felt like I was gonna die.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Any moment, the people for whom he had tried to die would see him, lying apparently dead, in Hagrid’s arms. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Leo’s own mom had died in a machine shop blaze. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dad was a part of all of us, and a part of all of us died then. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might as well ask. I can tell you’re dying of curiosity.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I gave this to your mother not long before she died.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly—still a bit pained in his joints and weak from hunger—up along die side of the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collapse to the floor on my left shoulder, and try to breathe through die pain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Florida had the largest population in the world of children condemned to die in prison for non-homicides. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For a long time, zoos couldn’t keep any bonobos, because they kept dying. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Resigned, Eddard Stark put his boots into his horse and set off after die king. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My living skeleton packed up in a cattle wagon with two hundred desperate others, carted off God knows where, to die of thirst before we get there? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I wonder how long it takes to die of hunger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Getting Javier back feels impossible, but I’m willing to die trying. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Britain had to turn to the Hanovarian George as King because they had run out of Stuarts; although Anne had 17 children only one survived infancy, and he died in 1700. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

An Osage scholar once observed, “Walking through an Osage cemetery and seeing the gravestones that show the inordinate numbers of young people who died in the period is chilling.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After he died, Vincent van Gogh was remembered by Zundert neighbors as both the boy who took long walks alone on the heath and the boy who stayed inside reading all the time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Your city is gone to ash and bone, your people are dying all around you. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had taught her to knit before she died. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Bud Searcy sure hoped that we wouldn’t have an outbreak of hydrophobia in Salt Licks and all die before the men got back from Kansas. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to sit here and watch you die, Harry Potter. Take your time. I’m in no hurry.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Figured Daddy was so mad about Mama dying, he’d leave me behind too. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They said it was a miracle he hadn’t died the moment his head hit the ground. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On a foggy morning another of the Russians is buried; almost every day one of them dies. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now risked dying from oxygen toxicity, as the excessively high amount of oxygen threatened to burn up my nervous system, lungs, and eyes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I wasn’t dying of curiosity and also awkwardness because we hadn’t talked at all about the stuff I said to her when I yelled that night after the party. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Monique, where’s Jordan? He left us there to die in the fire. He had Angel...He was trying to...to...He tried to kill me!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Aunty Ifeoma woke me up, the room was dim and the shrills of the night crickets were dying away. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert Swinyard's joke about a baby in a microwave died on his lips. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘Not at all,’ comes the reply, ‘because if you pardon yourself your partner cannot be executed, and so you will have pardoned two people, and that you cannot do. So you must die.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instead of dying Pa made a vast fortune. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The cheeks were red and die eyes were blue. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I asked if she was dying, and he told me yes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m probably gonna die if you don’t get me to a hospital or something. I’m sure it was poisonous.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re destined to die holding that piece of firewood, watching it burn. But perhaps if you didn’t keep it yourself. Perhaps if you trusted someone enough to hold it for you...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally he would tell her how Az had died. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the voices died away it was very still. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Before Mama died, some guys used to make fun of him and call him Professor. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“See how these letters are straight up and down, plodding across the page? And at the end of each word, the last letter trails off like it’s giving out its dying breath.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All were dead or dying—skewered or laid open or sundered. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as that piece of tinder is consumed—that stick at the edge of the fire—your son is destined to die.’” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

More than half of the pack mules and oxen died from exhaustion and starvation—the loads were too heavy and there wasn’t enough grass for them to eat. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Time was passing and the disturbance was dying down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Besides, if I'm going to die today, it's Rue I want to win. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His father died one afternoon while Ishmael was in the newsroom at the Seattle Times banging away with his five fingers at a typewriter. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Next to his ear, Michael Varus snarled, ‘Born a Roman, die a Roman.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully he is destroyed for now, but monsters never truly die. They re-form over and over again, and they must be hunted whenever they reappear.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Regiment had not stopped, was chasing the Rebs down die long valley between the hills. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened until his shout died off into echoes. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

My parents died before I could know them. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Blood seeps across the platform, and I shudder, chillingly reminded of how Nan died, in a pool of blood just like this one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her mom died when she was four, and her dad passed away three years later. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Shocking business...shocking . .. miracle none of them died...never heard the like...by thunder, it was lucky you were there, Snape....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He died in captivity, but the profits of that struggle and others like it are ours, even when the object of our struggle, as is so often true, escapes our grasp. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He got stuck and they had to feed him for forty days and then he finally died.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But if you died with a mortal sin on your soul you could never enter heaven. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad died not long ago, and when I come here, I think of him. I think of him when I see you with your kids, throwing them in the air and over your shoulder. . . .” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My boys didn’t care to die, that’s all, and when I told them that you couldn’t unleash them dragons against the Yunkishmen, well...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He thus manages to escape a world in which big brothers die in faraway places. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He had not died first and then been cast beneath the waves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sleep didn’t come, couldn’t come with the insects ripping at him, so he lay the rest of the night, slapping mosquitos and chewing with his mind on die day. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helped me to hear the Christian way, because I needed help, I needed to let Mameh go, and that’s when I started to become a Christian and the Jew in me began to die. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Betita, who had never been sick a day in her life, died in 1963, on November 22, on the same day as President Kennedy, but not from a bullet in the head. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That same year, the Commandant forced Faris to keep a bird-eating desert tarantula as a pet, telling him that if the spider died, he would too. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Mom was dying to have a little girl, so when she and husband number two got together, she went and paid some doctor lots of money so she could get pregnant.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

If for no other reason than so he could die with her. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Torches flickered and died until darkness reigned both within Elsinore and without. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If I could respond to him, I’d say, Stop sniveling and die somehow already. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I found out the next day that Mrs. Bigio’s husband had died on a small hill with no name, in a small part of Vietnam. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

One of the women picked for questioning had tried to be brave, but she had died screaming like all the rest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Graunt compiled statistics for the number born and dying each year, and the causes of death, from the annual bills of mortality that were published in London. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Alston turned me a-loose and said, “Son, you needs to get to Canada and tell your people ’bout that man what die. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, she didn’t ask anything that would force me to either lie or tell the truth that my mom had died. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I feel like a new me sprouts and dies every day. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the moment she saw it my mother decided she didn’t like Curacao and she often complained about the smell of gas and oil whenever the trade winds died down. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we fail, think how great it will be for you, gloating over our spirits when we die in agony. You’ll get to say ‘I told you so’ for eternity.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His widow, Arminda, my great-grandmother, had gone in it to the same place just a year ago, and also when she died the first time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I would’ve died if someone had made me get up on a table and sing. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

As these lay dying, biting the central floor, their friends gave way and broke for the inner wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t. It’s because my dad died the most horrible death that anyone ever could invent.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lori and Brian and I would use the rocks to decorate the graves of our pets that had died or of the dead animals we found and decided should get a proper burial. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in the world dies, but we only know about it as a kind of abstraction. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then another passage where David, when his son died, spoke also of no life after death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake, the son of Evening Sun, had to die for loving her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I remembered what the man on the train had said, that you died fastest if you stood underneath one of the showerheads, where the gas came out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He died sitting in his wicker chair at dusk. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the room down in the city, she stood by the window awhile and talked with Lazlo in a newly shy way, and that sense of the momentous did not die down. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His wound was far more serious than Garfield’s, and without emergency treatment, Reagan would have died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there is the place named after its ruler: Hel, where the dead go who did not die bravely in battle. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had been in Bolivia when a hot agent called Machupo had broken out, and he had seen a young woman die, covered with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, Grandma Caye was having so much trouble breathing that we thought she was going to die that night, but she didn’t. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I worried that perhaps she resented me because I reminded her that her youngest child had died. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Out front, George Pickett had ridden out before the whole Division, was making a speech, but he was too far away and none of die men could hear. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had both hoped for a baby, and they were thrilled, but pregnancy was dangerous in the nineteenth century About one in every two hundred women died in childbirth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Chubs’s stories died out, so did all conversation in the van. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The doctor said she died of a cerebral aneurysm. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You lucky he didn’t die in the middle of talking to you,” Trey says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A tiny realization edges in: In spite of all the times she thought she wanted to, she doesn’t want to die. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

What the Englishman said about survival was this: “If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asra was not, I think, unwilling to die, but he was afraid of dying; he sought distraction from his fear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners around me seemed to hold their breath, waiting for me to die. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter that we found him in a wrecked boat in a river. He’s my son, and I would die a thousand more times to protect him.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My mother tries to save them for those who are actually in the process of dying, to ease them out of the world. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You understand two guys died today,” the trooper said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But, Nurse, it must be baptized before it dies.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that America was really Asia died within a generation, while the alchemists’ project was much more resilient. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

About forty or fifty people had died from it, and he’d been one of them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were just waiting for the contest line to die down.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This was because his son died of influenza during the First World War and he still wanted to talk to him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She told me that many of the people died before they even got to the concentration camps. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The bitter truth is that Therese will die, perhaps on this Easter day. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The applause dies out and the mayor gives the speech in our honor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

What’s worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You mean the news story from when he died? Let’s see.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Four days before she died, I’d still had hope that she would get better. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Frank Buck, a tin worker, had either bolted from home or died in an accident, leaving Emma to care for a young daughter, Carrie Buck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But if we let them die or suffer when we can save or help them, we face the certainty of a moral twilight. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Doctors at the hospital in Kinshasa examined the nun’s case and began to suspect that she might have died of Marburg or a Marburg-like agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I huddled on my bunk sneaking bites of bread in the dark, listening to the nameless man beneath me die. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She died in my arms, saying, “I don’t want to die.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose he went out of the valley, looking for David, and died. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She paused before asking, “Kiyoshi? And then? What did you do next? After your mother died?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It came to us on the ferry after my mainland grandfather died. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell into a coma and died two days later from a massive skull fracture. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Silly’s father had died shortly after she was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at her with vehemence, I sit down and yell at Ma,“I am going to die because of you!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had died when I was having terrible thoughts about her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am not weak, Theon told himself, and I mean to be stionger yet by the time my father dies. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The storm wind whipped at his face, and then the wind died and a woman stood before him on the other side of the fire, her face in the shadows. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Men were crawling from the river, men burned and bleeding, coughing up water, staggering, most dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of die women said that his men had ridden all the way around the lake chasing Beric Dondarrion and slaying rebels. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Cretheus died the twins were told by their foster-mother who their real parents were. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in that time, I’d been shot, I had an operation, had nearly died, and had been flown to the other side of the world. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z