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Literature

"YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON’T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE A BOOK."
Death to Sam Vimes, Thud!

Live-Action TV

Fireman: You've been very lucky.
Tracey: Lucky?! Half my kitchen's in the garden!
Fireman: An' if you'd been comin' in the backdoor, you'd have joined it. Fortunately, the blast was directed away from ya.

Foggy: I was convinced I was gonna die. The last thing I remember thinking was "not yet".
Marci: You must've been so scared.
Foggy: More than I've ever been in my entire life. But there was something else beneath it. This feeling of being unsettled. Important things left undone.
Daredevil (2015), "Aftermath"

Video Games

"I've danced with death before, but that was a particularly intimate waltz."
Sebille after her ship went down at sea, Divinity: Original Sin II

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