Death Quote by Dan Skinner

“He sat looking down at his hands--his fine strong unscarred hands. Suddenly and unreasonably he thought of another pair of hands--his mother's--with the knuckles…

— Edna Ferber

“Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.”

— John Green

“It was broken. It was haunted. Just like her. But it had bones, and it had memories, and it had the ability to be…

— Lauren Gilley

“...I felt the stirring even of parts of me that had been dead since childhood, that sense of the child as a sort of…

— Denis Johnson

“But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that I knew,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“she’d have been gnawing her way through his bedroom walls to sink her avid fingers into his youthful flesh.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Had I not come from the core of her bones I do not think my mother would have ever loved me.”

— Abeer Abdullah

“This was your mother’s door. She was loyal, brilliant, beautiful, and she was my friend. I will treasure her memory forever.”

— Anonymous

“Her fingers brushed his palm as she took the piece of metal, warm from his touch, and something surprisingly like a burst of want…

— Misty Simon

“Sometimes I’d take off my earmuffs and memory goggles and turn around to discover that my father had been standing in the doorway, just…

— Joshua Foer

“He seemed particularly insistent. I both did and didn’t want to be left alone at the house with my mother. There was an aching…

— Danzy Senna