Quote by Eve Langlais

“He worries she’s going to ask what happened. Why he isn’t dead. It’s a question he’s been dreading and preparing for all day.”

— Blake Crouch

“When I found him lying in the ditch holding a shovel, I thought he was sleeping on the job. Turns out he was being…

— Jarod Kintz

“She could undoubtedly get the boy to dig his own grave. With enough encouragement and a little cleavage, he wouldn’t even need a shovel.”

— Nicole Castle

“I was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. We were afraid of the dead because we never could tell when they…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“He’d need the woman’s help to set things right; he just didn’t like having to wake the dead.”

— Joe DeRouen

“He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I wanted him dead too, so that if I couldn't stop thinking about him and worrying about when would be the next time I'd…

— André Aciman

“She'd... she'd... Well she'd kill him if he was dead.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“He was in his coffin, ready to be buried, and yet he knew that he wasn’t dead.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Oh, but somehow, some way, maybe she had and just didn't know it. Those strange workings destined to always end with her standing like…

— Rebecca Hill

“But he saw her and, God, it was exactly like last night. Everything he'd learn about this particular woman would fascinate him; he was…

— Joey W. Hill