This character appears in 47 books.
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Death: The narrator of the story. Death is sympathetic to humans and dislikes all of the despair and destruction that results from their haterd and war. He comments on the thoughts, morals, and actions of humanity throughout the story while keeping an eye on Liesel.
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“A last note from your narrator: I am haunted by humans.”
“You could argue that Liesel Meminger had it easy. She did have it easy compared to Max Vandenburg. Certainly, her brother practically died in her arms. Her mother abandoned her. But anything was better than being a Jew.”
“Here is a small fact: You are going to die.”
“Her nerves licked her palms.”
“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”
“I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me.”
“'When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.'Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.”
“By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.”
“I do not carry a sickle or a scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.”
“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
“For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it's so they can die being right.”
“Humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.”
“The bombs were coming - and so was I.”
“Those images were the world, and it stewed in her as she sat with the lovely books and their manicured titles. It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words.”
“They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.”
“It amazes me, what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing, searching, finding.”
“Liesel rushed over. She crouched above him. Kiss him, Liesel, kiss him.”
“On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy was like robbery- so much life, so much to live for- yet somehow I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled, if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips. Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right. You see? Even death has a heart.”
“Rudy did nothing; he said nothing. When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like.”
“It's just a small story really, about, among other things: A girl, Some words, An accordionist, Some fanatical Germans, A Jewish fist fighter, And quite a lot of thievery...”
“So many humans, so many colors.”
“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.”
“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
“They are frightened, no question, but they were not afraid of me. It was a fear of messing up and having to face themselves again, and facing the world, and the likes of you.”
“The ones who rise up and say,"I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come."”
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness”
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Good Omens
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Death: Come now, is a description really necessary?
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“There was a tearing sound. Death's robe split and his wings unfolded. Angel's wings. But not of feathers. They were wings of night, wings that were shapes cut through the matter of creation into the darkness underneath, in which a few distant lights glimmered, lights that may have been stars or may have been something entirely else. BUT I, he said, AM NOT LIKE THEM. I AM AZRAEL, CREATED TO BE CREATION'S SHADOW. YOU CANNOT DESTROY ME. THAT WOULD DESTROY THE WORLD.”
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH”
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Heritage of Shannara: Book 4The Talismans of Shannara
by Terry Brooks
Death: A Shadowen posing as one of the Four Horsemen and sent to Paranor to keep Walker trapped inside, it was destroyed by the magics of Walker Boh and Cogline's black powder.
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Discworld: Book 20Hogfather
by Terry Pratchett
Death: Susan's grandfather.
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. Any horse that was grinning was planning something.”
“MERE ACCUMULATION OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PROOF.”
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Discworld: Book 11Reaper Man
by Terry Pratchett
Death: The grim reaper, responsible for ushering all the souls of discworld to their hereafter.
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.”
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Discworld: Book 1The Colour of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
Death: An anthropomorphic personification of death. ALWAYS SPEAKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Is fond of Rincewood.
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Discworld: Book 34Thud!
by Terry Pratchett
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON'T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE A BOOK.”
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Discworld: Book 4Mort
by Terry Pratchett
Death: Hooded Skeleton with bright blue eyes. Wears black. Comes for all in their time.
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Sword of Shadows: Book 1A Cavern of Black Ice
by J. V. Jones
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“Kill an army for me Raif Sevrance any less and I might just call you back.”
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From the World of the SandmanThe Little Endless Storybook (The Sandman)
by Jill Thompson
Death: The eldest of the Endless
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The Sandman: Book 6Fables & Reflections
by Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot
Death: Dream's sister, one of the Endless.
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The Sandman: Book 3Dream Country
by Neil Gaiman
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.”
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Death with Interruptions
by José Saramago
Death: A representation of Death as we know it - a skeleton in a robe that "lives" in a cold room and decides the end of human's lives. Death in this novel interacts with the human world: she, because it's a beautiful 36 years old woman, wants to know why a man whose death was decided didn't died.
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Death: A Life
by George Pendle
Death: Son of Satan and Sin, Death is responsible for pulling souls from bodies and ushering them into the darkness.
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THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES
by MALORIE BLACKMAN
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard
by J. K. Rowling
Death: Long black cloak. Gives the three brothers the gifts, the elder wand, the resurrection stone and the invisibility cloak, the Deathly Hallows.
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Live to Ride
by Bo Edwards
Death: An underworld enforcer who deals in meth and stolen property in central England along with his hooligan mates Skin and Zed. They do the dirty work of a crime lord in Manchester, and they shake down tourists.
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The Sandman: Book 1Preludes & Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
Death: The second of The Endless, she is the one who brings people to their afterlife, and the one who will last longer, as she will retrieve the last conscious being (in The Sandman universe, even planets, stars or dimensions can have consciousness). In this book she appears to remind Dream of the responsibilities of being an Endless.
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Coffee and my conversations with Death.
by Kevin Currie
Death: Death is unlike anything you've read before. He's a curious sort who is not afraid to say what's on his mind.
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Book 1Hunger
by Jackie Morse Kessler
Death: The Horseman of the Apocalypse. He is the only one who lives forever. He sings like Kurt Cobain, who is dead. He sings like him because he can change to anything/one dead.
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“Thou art Famine, yo!”
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Discworld This book is based on The Colour of Magic Film Tie-In Omnibus (Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett.The Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic
by Terry Pratchett, Steven Ross, Scott Rockwell
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“I DID INDEED CHASE THEM MIGHTILY, ONCE, he said, BUT AT LAST THE THOUGHT CAME TO ME THAT SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY?”
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Alex Craft: Book 2Grave Dance
by Kalayna Price
Death: Soul Collector who has known Alex since she was five but only recently has displayed the the desire for more.
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Mixed metaphors : the danse macabre in medieval and early modern Europe
by Sophie Oosterwijk and Stefanie Knöll
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The Vampire from Hell series: Book 2A Vampire Among Angels
by Ally Thomas
Death: Rayea's ex-boyfriend who prefers wearing black leather outfits to Italian suits.
Memorable Quotes by Death:
“Do you realize how much paperwork I’m going to have to fill out?”
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