Top 100 Dead Girl Quotes
#1. My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.
Chuck Palahniuk
#2. No sooner are her glass toes thrust into the mud grave than the revolutions begin. Uprisings, fire and steel. The prince is lynched in the ballroom with the dead girl's hair. Royalty's a thing of the past. The kingdom chooses their monarch.
Naturally, they elect a wolf.
Allyse Near
#3. We don't know those bones but I know what it feels like to know a dead girl. Her text messages are in my phone. I don't look at them but I keep them there. It seems fucked up to delete a dead girl's texts. It seems pointless. She is already gone.
Gabby Bess
#5. Hello dead girl," Isola said, ever the hostess.
"Hello heartbeat girl," said the uninvited guest. "It's like a drum, it's so fucking loud. Turn it down, will you?
Fairytales For Wilde Girls
#6. I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
Edwin Edwards
#7. The problem was that there was no treatment. No cure. There was nothing that ... any medical professional could do. If I'd been fully human, I would have been a dead girl walking ...
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#8. I wonder what it's like for her, looking so much like a dead girl.
Lauren DeStefano
#9. I've come to ask my questions. The ones my dead girl left inside me.
Is it my fault.
What happened to you.
Are you happy.
What do you want from me.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#10. One wrong move, one bad rumor, one mistake, and it's social death row. I'm the latest to be sentenced. Move out of the way, everyone. Dead girl walking.
-Riley
Dawn Klehr
#11. I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.
Faith Sullivan
#12. I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die. I hate those crying dough women on TV because they are just like me, weak and broken and clinging to the hands that hold us under.
Elizabeth Scott
#13. The dead girl had her glimpse of earthly paradise: littered with designer goods, and celebrities to sneer at, and handsome drivers to joke with, and the yearning for it had brought her to this: seven mourners, and a minister who did not know her name.
Robert Galbraith
#14. It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.
Kelly Braffet
#15. The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
Edwin Edwards
#18. She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.
Tonya Hurley
#19. My pulses quicken. The thunderous sound of my heart beating fills my eardrums. I'm jealous of a dead girl. Why? Because I think I'm in love with her boyfriend.
Kat Lieu
#20. There is no case," he told her. "There's a series of random and implausible crises that make no sense other than if you believe the most dramatic possible shit. And there's a dead girl at the end of it all.
China Mieville
#21. Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is boiled mole and artichokes. Plus, we kind of have a dead girl in the living room.
Michael Grant
#22. Hey! Back off from the dead girl. She's Resistance property." "Yeah," says his twin brother Dum from inside the cab. "We need her for autopsies and stuff. You think girls killed by demon princes are easy to find?" As
Susan Ee
#23. The target of Melanie Thernstrom's The Dead Girl is, I think, an interesting one:
David Shields
#24. The only way I won't be re-elected is if I were found in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
Edwin Edwards
#25. Now, why would a dead girl lie?
Hey! That sounds like a joke. Why would a dead girl lie? Answer: Because she can't stand up.
Jay Asher
#26. You're so immature." "Blue hair. That's all I'm saying." "Bite me, dead girl." I showed fang and winked at her. "Don't tempt me, witch.
Chloe Neill
#27. Here I was, Brett Ashley Baker, A.K.A., dead girl, A.K.A., untrained guardian angel, stuck figuring out all of this angel stuff in addition to being dead on my own.
Karri Thompson
#28. Dead girl walking" the boys say in the halls.
"Tell us your secrets" the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
"I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#29. This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind.
Tahereh Mafi
#31. A beautiful, tear-stomped girl,shaking the dead.
Markus Zusak
#32. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die.
Sylvia Plath
#33. I feel like I'm going to die,' he says.
'Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?'
'Only if you do it quietly.'
'I met this girl last night. I need your advice.'
'Come back later.'
'No. You might be dead.
Doug MacLeod
#34. Crap.
It's all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn't anybody realize this?
K-Ske Hasegawa
#35. Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?
Tate Hallaway
#36. De girl baby ain't born and her mama is dead, dat can git me tuh spend our money on her. Ah told yo' before dat you got de keys tuh de kingdom. You can depend on dat.
Zora Neale Hurston
#37. A girl can't always wait for a knight in shining armor. She'd be dead long before he ever shows up, if at all.
Casey Odell
#38. God is dead! Only the IT department can help you now.
-Edward Smegger in Super, Girl! (p. 79)
MaryJanice Davidson
#39. I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.
John Fowles
#40. You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
Vivien Leigh
#41. Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago." He turned and started wading into the swamp. "Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#42. Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
Holly Black
#43. If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.
Jennifer Donnelly
#44. Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?
Who's sorry for a gnat ... or a girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#45. I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.
Catherine Fisher
#46. Should we change our name?" Saracen asked. "The Dead People, perhaps?"
"The Dead Non-Gender-Specific Persons?" Vex suggested.
"Dead Men and a Girl? Dead Men and a Little Lady?
Derek Landy
#47. They wandered to the door like that, a pretzel of a dead boy and a not-psychic girl.
Maggie Stiefvater
#48. He shut the door behind him and set about locking many dead bolts before finally sliding the chain across.
"Tough neighborhood ?" I asked. "I saw a girl on a My Little Pony bike outside ; she looked kind of nasty.
Karina Halle
#49. Brenda's pouting voice broke in, Your girl friend's dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too.
Katherine Paterson
#50. Wait." Amber jumped up wide-eyed. "Is she a - "
"A ghost " I smirked. "Amber you're a necromancer in a show about raising the dead. What did you expect Eerie sounds produced by a computer and a few Hollywood actors in bad makeup Please don't tell me you've never seen a real ghost.
Jayde Scott
#51. A girl is like a tree? Yeah, and a guy is about as smart as a piece of dead wood infested with termites
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#53. The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
She aims it at the creature's head,
And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
Roald Dahl
#54. Girl, you are wiser than your years."
"Actually, Randall, I'm just older than I look.
Evan Geller
#55. That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.
Reyna Pryde
#56. If you wait for God to descend to earth and save you
from your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead.
Sheeja Jose
#57. Yes, fine," I say, feeling dead inside. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea who isn't really here.
Libba Bray
#58. You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
Markus Zusak
#59. I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
Natalie Merchant
#60. But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
William Goldman
#61. The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slavers and slayers and thieves. They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns. And their women lay with the Others in the Long Night to sire terrible half-human children.
George R R Martin
#62. Adam's hot Pheebs! Admit it girl. That body is like some kind of happy experiment. It's like he was manufactured in a nympho scientist's secret laboratory
Daniel Waters
#63. She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned with, though perhaps she doesn't know it yet.
Rebecca Harris
#64. Is this your girl?" she asks, not waiting for an answer. "She's breathtaking."
"You're my new favorite person," Billie giggles.
Rebecca Harris
#65. Someone is just dead!" said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God.
Dot Hutchison
#66. Girl, have you any thought what your eyes mean?
You must have stolen them from some dead queen.
O little empty laughing soul that sings
And dances, tell me
What do your eyes mean?
Omar Khayyam
#67. There's a girl out there everyone thinks is dead and maybe she is because you know all the ways there are to kill a girl? I do.
Courtney Summers
#68. If I heard a girl crying help
I would go to save her;
But you hardly ever hear those words.
Dear children, you must try to say
Something when you are in need.
Don't confuse hunger with greed;
And don't wait until you are dead.
Ruth Stone
#69. We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.
Stephen King
#70. Another girl?" Charlie drew closer. "Yes, as a matter of fact. Been dead for a couple of days, probably killed two nights ago.
Scott Cawthon
#71. NEW YORK- A 2-yearold girl who wandered away from a holiday weekend family barbecue in a city park was found dead in a lake after a desperate five-hour search by police and bystanders.
Anonymous
#72. Why are you worried about him? Des is a punk. (Urian)
Desiderius is dead. Kyrian killed him. (Tabitha)
Yeah, and I'm the Easter Bunny- see my fluffy tail? You don't just kill a Spathi, little girl. All you do is take him out of commission for a while. (Urian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#73. Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend's girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.
Haruki Murakami
#74. You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.
David Gemmell
#75. And people loved me. I was no longer the pity case (with, how weird, the dead sister). I was the pretty girl (with, how sad, the dead sister). And so I was popular.
Gillian Flynn
#76. Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead.
Laini Taylor
#77. Girl, I'd warn you that God Almighty's goin' to strike you dead, exceptin' I been warnin' your mama that for years, and he in his infinite mercy has so far seen fit to withhold his lightnin'.
Tom Robbins
#78. Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ?
Francesca Woodman
#79. My reading is dead!' Pilar gasped. The little girl held the fourth grade reading book, rigid as a stillborn, across her open palms as if pleading with the pretty gringa teacher to take the burden away.
Janiece Hopper
#80. Yep, that girl was as dead as you could get inside. But Scarlett Jo wasn't worried. Not really. Because sometimes a person has to die in order to really live.
Denise Hildreth Jones
#81. The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.
Sophie Kinsella
#82. The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect.
Paul Cornell
#83. It's just words. How can words be dangerous?"
"You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more dangerous than words."
"That's stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead."
"Only your body," Billy said. "It can't kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#84. Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.
Lauren DeStefano
#85. The M-Psy assured him the injury could be repaired, filled in, but Ming had no intention of taking her up on it. Not at least, until Sienna Lauren was dead. The girl had just proven she was too dangerous to keep alive, even on a leash.
Nalini Singh
#86. American Girls and American Guys
We'll always stand up and salute
We'll always recognize
When we see Old Glory Flying
There's a lot of men dead
So we can sleep in peace at night
When we lay down our head.
Toby Keith
#87. In the windowless tomb of a blind mother, in the dead of the night, under feeble rays of a lamp in an alabaster globe, a girl came into the darkness with a wail.
George MacDonald
#88. No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.
Charlie Donlea
#89. I take you for a girl who's eager to grow unstable at the first indication that things can come back to haunt a person, even after she has given them up for dead.
Heidi Julavits
#90. One girl lost forever to this stagnant place was enough.
Kat Rosenfield
#91. I'll show you how great we are going to be. Because you're the most beautiful girl I've ever met, and I'm not talking about your gorgeous face, your stunning hair or your drop-dead sexy body. I never knew it was possible to be so attracted to your best friend.
Kimberly Lauren
#92. In the girl's room on the chest of drawers stood the glass vase with the withered flowers, the water had evaporated, it was there that her blind hands directed themselves, her fingers brushed against the dead petals, how fragile life is when it is abandoned.
Jose Saramago
#94. Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.
John Buchan
#95. No, I mean why are you here? You just happen to be at the same place I am? The girl who believes in coincidence always ends up dead, Devin.
Jocelyn Davies
#96. If a girl breaks up with me, I want her to just die, just be dead. Not 'cause I hate her so much as it's just easier for when my friends go, 'Hey, what happened?' 'Oh, she's dead. I'd still be with her, but she's dead. What can I do? She was loving me, but she's dead.'
Adam Sandler
#97. Rosie had been a little girl with a dead dad, and there was no getting around that or over that. Even a drunk dad, even an asshole, was better than a dead dad, which shouldn't reflect on you but did, and left a cannon hole in your heart. [p. 121]
Anne Lamott
#98. Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.
Mila Kunis
#99. But I would not break. I would not give up Ember's location, or Riley's underground. The next few hours might have me wishing I was dead, but I would not betray the girl I loved to the organization. They would have to kill me.
Julie Kagawa
#100. Dead people, dead ideas and supposedly dead moments are never really dead and they shape every moment of our lives. We ignore them and this makes them powerful.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
