Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Katniss (pp. 8)
The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Source: Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Katniss (pp. 8)
The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Katniss (pp. 8)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: My Name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in The Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead...
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923–2006) US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale
The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984), p. 65.
Alternate version" Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.
in "Christianity as an enfolding circle," U.S. News & World Report (June 26, 1989), p. 57
“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Remark to Lord Aberdare on being welcomed to the House of Lords (1876), cited by Stanley Weintraub, Disraeli: A Biography (1993), p. 563.
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/12/13/terry.pratchett
Misc
“To my son,
If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.”
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Source: City of Lost Souls