Quote by Amie Kaufman

“After the service was over, I whispered to one of my fellow staff members, "If I commit suicide, I'll tattoo a message on my…

— Margaret Bullitt-Jonas

“You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden and metal…

— Carl Abrahamsson

“sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“These are my soldiers. Standing single-file line in their assembly uniforms. Black shirts, black pants, black boots. No guns. Left fist pressed against their…

— Tahereh Mafi

“One’s own dead are more than cadavers, they are place holders for the living. They are a focus, a receptacle, for emotions that no…

— Mary Roach

“Mizzenmast,” bellowed Caldris, and Locke and Jean both fetched up short, breathing heavily. “Ship doesn’t bloody have one,” said Locke. “Just foremast and mainmast!”…

— Scott Lynch

“no cables being unrolled, no copy being written. They were all huddled together, allegiances to individual stations forgotten, grieving the loss of one of…

— J.T. Ellison

“one of Jack’s informative T-shirts: “Join The Army, See The World, Meet New People And Kill Them.”

— Nelson DeMille

“The planet is sending out two unmanned craft to determine what you did to me I am requesting a copy of their findings which…

— Chris Emslie

“I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.”

— Munia Khan

“Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here now ’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death,…

— Herman Melville

“The things I need to say can only be written furtively on scraps of smuggled paper, in moments of time stolen from the dead…

— Ovadya ben Malka