Quote by Alyxandra Harvey

“A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote…

— Sara Quin

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“... there is no greater way I can think of to honor those people who've died than to tell their story ...”

— Jaime Sobrato

“I would not have it understood, for a moment, that I or any of the Elders attend funerals to smother over the weaknesses of…

— Joseph F. Smith

“Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A follow-up letter is best when not written on the back of a suicide note. Remember this next time you’re at a networking event,…

— Jarod Kintz

“The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.”

— Sabrina Jeffries

“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in…

— Jane Austen

“You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.”

— Alice Hoffman

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

— Christopher Morley

“All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my husband, to…

— Delia Sherman

“Has anyone ever been able to prevent the dead from talking to one another?”

— Rabisankar Bal