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> [“We are not dead!" He could hear the smile, even in her answering yell. "Certainly we are. It is only that our bodies have not yet learned the truth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/we-are-not-dead-he-could-hear-the-smile-even-in-her-answering-yell/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

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## More by Jay Lake

> [“The fanged shadows boiled out behind them, howling for blood, their voices creaking with the sound of snapping bones. The fallen of Hethor's own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/the-fanged-shadows-boiled-out-behind-them-howling-for-blood-their/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

> [Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/writing-is-self-reinforcing-don-t-make-a-fetish-out-of-it-and-don-t/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

> [“We are not dead!" He could hear the smile, even in her answering yell. "Certainly we are. It is only that our bodies have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/we-are-not-dead-he-could-hear-the-smile-even-in-her-answering-yell/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

> [“Just don’t ask questions.” Chillicothe mimed a pistol with the fingers of her left hand. “Some answers are permanent fatal errors.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/just-don-t-ask-questions-chillicothe-mimed-a-pistol-with-the-fingers/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

> [Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/any-cause-that-requires-mockery-and-abuse-to-advance-itself-isn-t-one/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

> [“Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/some-people-would-rather-that-you-die-for-their-beliefs-than-that/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

> [“Do not teach your congregation to pray. Someday they might succeed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/do-not-teach-your-congregation-to-pray-someday-they-might-succeed/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

> [“Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-lake/ever-has-common-decency-paved-the-way-to-uncommon-folly/)

[Jay Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-lake/)

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