Evocative Quote by Ed Park

“She wondered what an unreleased soul, a soul-shaped stone on a funeral pyre, might look like. Like a starfish maybe. Or a millipede. Or…

— Arundhati Roy

“Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don’t know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and…

— Saul Bellow

“The moths look like souls in the underworld,”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Her eyes were luminous gold. I wondered if that was the last color a bug saw when it was trapped in amber—and if the…

— Rick Riordan

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?”

— Emile Cioran

“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“She was more of a marble statue under a cascade of moonlight, smelling like flowers and ivy—the glory of a weeping graveyard angel.”

— Rob Thurman

“A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.”

— Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from…

— J.A. Clement

“But I was thinking; feeling; living; those two lives that the two halves symbolized with the intensity, the muffled intensity, which a butterfly or…

— Virginia Woolf

“Spiderwebs broken and torn in a wind that is indifferent to their beauty.”

— Anne Rice