“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”
Dean Koontz book Dead and Alive
Source: Dead and Alive
“Shane held the jewelry at arm's length, dangling it like a dead rat. "No way in hell am I caught dead or alive wearing that.”
Source: Ghost Town
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