April Quote by DiAnn Mills

“ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN while the dead slept.”

— DiAnn Mills

“She loved the cemetery because it was quiet and beautiful. Grown-ups argued so much when they were alive. No one argued when they were…

— Dianna Hardy

“Being buried alive in a cemetery would put me in grave danger.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Death, so permanent for the dead, should be more than just an afternoon activity for the mourners.”

— Noah Hawley

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night…

— Charles Dickens

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

“There was an eerie quiet about last night, like death sleeping on the beach of Lake Erie. I woke up with sand in my…

— Jarod Kintz

“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We…

— David Vann

“It was there, in the parlors of the funeral home---my daily stations with the local lately dead---that the darkness would often give way to…

— Thomas Lynch

“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.”

— B. Traven

“Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!”

— Hugh Howey

“...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of…

— Sharon Kay Penman