“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”
Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors
Source: Running with Scissors
Source: The Red Pyramid
“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”
Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors
Source: Running with Scissors
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“I'm not mad that you got mad when I got mad when you said I should go drop dead.”
Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright
tick, tick... BOOM! (1990)
“Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.”
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Immortal Beloved
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981) <br class="br">Variant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. <br class="br">Source: The Bell Jar
“I wouldn’t eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, ‘Eat Me.”
Ricky Williams (1977) All-American college football players, professional football players, running back
About his vegetarianism. "Ricky Williams: Taking the Veggie Plunge" by Jennifer Santiago, PETAWorld.com (23 March 2006) https://archive.is/20060323231702/http://www.petaworld.com/RickyWilliams.asp#selection-803.0-803.117.
“Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Variant: Oh God.” said Magnus, “they’re dead. They’re all dead!
Source: City of Heavenly Fire