“Then Cardan comes in to view, a fond smile on his lips. When he speaks, he does so in a conspiratorial whisper.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Cole's Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn… — For The State Of Massachusetts Copy Share Image
“Burials in Cahokia could be astonishingly elaborate. In one, a man was buried on a bed of twenty thousand beads of shell.… — Jake Page Copy Share Image
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“If I had my druthers, I would be buried in a library or inside a coffin that resembled one--that's how I feel… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them… — John Graunt Copy Share Image