A funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn't it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there's still warm blood doing a jig in your veins.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

About Lydia Kang

Lydia Kang is an American author of adult and young adult fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is also an internal medicine physician, and practices internal medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. Her most popular works include the 1899-era story Opium & Absinthe (2020), which entailed a story of a young woman from...

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She had the sort of beauty that left you bleeding internally after gazing for too long.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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Somewhere in the world at that moment, there was a birth, a death, a sunrise, and a sunset. There was despair, and a burst of laughter, a promise broken, and a vow made.
And there was this kiss.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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More quotations tagged with “death”

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

—Vladimir Nabokov

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

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I think some love you can stand to let go of because it's ultimately for the best, but other types you have to stick with until the day you die even when it's hard.

—Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary

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3 Jan 2018 Added