“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer
“Better to die than to live in fear.”
— Christopher Paolini, book Inheritance
Roran, on the cause of the Varden
Inheritance (2011)
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