Source: The Red Magician (1982), Chapter 9 (p. 137)
“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
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