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“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.”

— Tahir Shah

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not startle the…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fortunately, by the time I'd gotten to the stairs I had finished gasping and stepping on dead people, so I was pretty prepared for…

— April White

“Death stalked toward us on padded feet. And it was not alone.”

— Melika Dannese Lux

“They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like…

— Maggie LaCroix

“At the grave's precipice, our feet scuff dirt, and chunks of the firmament fall away.”

— Ann Voskamp

“It looked like precisely the sort of place where a living body might go if it wanted to become a dead one.”

— William Ritter

“It looked like I was the dead itself, and that isn't something someone should aspire to look like.”

— Kelley Armstrong

“People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood…

— Alice Hoffman

“Down the steps, ...over the corpses, ...careers the pram with the child.”

— Sergei Eisenstein

“I am his tomb. The earth is nothing. Dead. Staves and orchards issue from my mouth. His. Perfume my chest, which is wide, wide…

— Jean Genet