Quote by Bram Stoker

“There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial service was…

— Mary Roach

“She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to…

— Rett MacPherson

“She is…” Death turned her head, considering. “She is like a party dress I wear when I want to impress visiting dignitaries. Like your…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“...she acknowledged each person's nearness to the dead and helped the group in its struggle for order-who grieved most, whose pain was most real-because…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“She is staring at me wide-eyed, willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the…

— Lauren Oliver

“Little is known about her. We are assured, however, that the same damnable involvements that obsess us obsess her too. Copulation. Strangeness. Applause.”

— Donald Barthelme

“Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.”

— Jan Karon

“One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.”

— William Shakespeare

“I love how sincere she is. She makes a mannequin look like Mother Theresa, though she looks better naked. And I hope she thinks…

— Jarod Kintz

“This is how I want to be remembered: In spite of everything, she really tried to be nice and believed other people did too.…

— Mik Everett

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë

“She does not reply. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is…

— J.M. Coetzee