Quote by Erin Morgenstern

“I give it a shot. “Relax,” I whisper. “You’re already dead.” Her eyes fill with tears and I roll mine. Ghosts.”

— Eliza Crewe

“Come here into the candlelight. I’m not afraid to look at the dead. For when the dead come they have as much right to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.”

— Dean Koontz

“The dead always have stories to tell. They just need the living to listen.”

— Jennifer Latham

“There, there, it is but a story," she comforted sadly. "Like all dead people become.”

— M.E. Vaughan

“But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by…

— Sangu Mandanna

“Yes, fine," I say, feeling dead inside. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll…

— Libba Bray

“The dead do not haunt, no matter how much you beg them to.”

— Lancali

“And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?”

— Franz Wright

“The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.”

— Otfried Preußler

“There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial service was…

— Mary Roach

“What can I say? Death is messy. And she had it coming.”

— MaryJanice Davidson