Parenting Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“He had not even done the fledgling courtesy of shredding open a major artery, anointing himself in the viscous gore, and desecrating her body.…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“Death was such a mystery. The complete disappearance of something as complex and miraculous as a living, breathing human being had always been beyond…

— G.A. McKevett

“She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her…

— Cixin Liu

“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which nodded their…

— Émile Zola

“she poured herself into him wordlessly. Unable to stop, she emptied her very core into him, and yelled and sobbed and laughed and promised…

— David Grossman

“She was being released from the sorrows of the soil that had bred her.”

— Nadine Bjursten

“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, what the hell did that mean anyway? Was it supposed to be a consoling thought, understanding her mother…

— Anonymous

“She and her daughter between them killed and ate as many as ten infants.”

— Stefan Klein

“A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in…

— J.D. Salinger