Book-club-fiction Quote by Amy Hatvany

“I waited a moment, then lowered myself, cross-legged, to the earth. Some of the graves were adorned with flowers, in various stages of freshness…

— Barry Eisler

“Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my…

— J.W. Lord

“I can feel the grip of lost lives beneath me, starved hearts hoping to escape their shadowy fates.”

— Ky Grabowski

“Somehow, by dealing with the dead, I had never felt so alive.”

— Karina Halle

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure…

— Vaddey Ratner

“The dead has always been within us, its just the graveyard where we lay to rest.”

— Anthony Liccione

“The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was…

— Alex Flinn

“Now you're dead, and I'm buried.”

— Cath Crowley

“When you hold hands with the dead, eventually they pull you into the grave. ”

— Steven Montano

“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.”

— Euripides

“I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.”

— Alfa H

“I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal, but…

— Sylvia Plath