There's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident

— Josh Stern

The skies give no warning when they fall.

— Marty Rubin

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

— Charlie Fletcher

They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.

— John Sandford

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.

— R.L. Stine

This was his first trip on the Ossify Distant, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Stiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. Head™d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously a“ which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors Warner™t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.

— Christina Engela

This was his first trip on the Ossify Distant, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Stiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He’d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. Furthermore, he was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously – which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. Furthermore, he had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren’t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.

— Christina Engela

We do not suffer by accident.

— Jane Austen

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

— Mark Strand

What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.

— Rachel Kushner