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“What’s all this, Mr. Stibbons?” “I really should talk to him, sir. He’s had a near-death experience!” “We all have. It’s called ‘living,’” said the Archchancellor shortly.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“You should have told me my cat was a time traveler.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half