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An End Day is a person’s last day of life. Heralds at the Death-Cast organization call people to give them 24 hours’ notice of their End Day.
End Day Quotes in They Both Die at the End
The They Both Die at the End quotes below are all either spoken by End Day or refer to End Day. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Mateo, 3:14 a.m.
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Rufus E. (3:19 a.m.): Hey, Mateo. Nice hat.
He not only responded, but he likes my Luigi hat from my profile picture. He’s already connecting to the person I want to become.
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Mateo, 11:32 a.m.
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“I think we’re already dead, dude. Not everyone, just Deckers. The whole Death-Cast thing seems too fantasy to be true. Knowing when our last day is going down so we can live it right: Straight-up fantasy. The first afterlife kicks off when Death-Cast tells us to live out our day knowing it’s our last; that way we’ll take full advantage of it, thinking we’re still alive. Then we enter the next and final afterlife without any regrets.”
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Howie Maldonado, 5:23 p.m.
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“What would’ve made you happy?” Delilah asks.
Love comes to mind, immediately, and it surprises him like a lightning bolt on a day with clear forecasts. Howie never felt lonely, because he could go online at any moment and find himself flooded with messages. But affection from millions and intimacy from that one special person are completely different beasts.
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End Day Term Timeline in They Both Die at the End
The timeline below shows where the term End Day appears in They Both Die at the End. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Rufus, 1:18 a.m.
...things before Peck can. Hopefully, Peck won’t call the police, or Rufus might spend his End Day in jail or be killed by a cop. He tells the Plutos that he wants...
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Mateo, 1:52 a.m.
...promise to the world to do better. He vows not to drag Lidia into his End Day ; he’ll visit her, but he won’t tell her the truth. He decides he needs...
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...book series, and that he wants to find a new version of himself on his End Day . Mateo selects a photo of himself in a Luigi hat, which he won for...
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Rufus, 1:59 a.m.
...Scissors. Aimee arrives and asks if Rufus is kidding. Rufus thinks she’s asking about his End Day , but she steps aside to reveal Peck, bruised and bleeding.
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Lidia Vargas, 9:14 a.m.
...up a status about her best friend dying. She’ll never know how Mateo spent his End Day , but she hopes he finds what he’s looking for.
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Mateo, 1:28 p.m.
...the fire out. Mateo is hungry, but he doesn’t feel like he can waste his End Day eating when he and Rufus almost died. He sits next to Rufus and watches people...
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Zoe Landon, 2:57 p.m.
...up again and says that she’s happy that Zoe found a Last Friend on her End Day , and that Gabriella does graffiti. The girls decide to open the book together. Zoe...
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Victor Gallaher, 10:13 p.m.
...rings: it’s Delilah. She immediately asks Victor if Victor had someone harass her with an End Day call because he’s upset. Delilah promises that she won’t report him if he did. Victor...
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Rufus, 10:14 p.m.
...it. He tells Dad his Instagram username and says that Mateo was brave on his End Day . Rufus leaves the note with the photo and then leaves the hospital. Twenty minutes...
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