American Gods- Neil Gaiman
Feb. 5th, 2008 08:04 pmLaura looked up at him with dead blue eyes. "I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really  alive. I want to feel my heart pumping in my chest again. I want to  feel blood moving through me- hot, and salty, and real. It's weird, you  don't think you can feel it, the blood, but believe me, if it stops  flowing, you'll know." She rubbed her eyes, smudging her face with red  from the mess on her hands. "Look, it's hard. You know why dead people  only go out at night, puppy? Because it's easier to pass for real, in  the dark. And I don't want to have to pass. I want to be alive."