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“I killed a man for his shoes, and then I realized his feet were much smaller than mine. So I walked around barefoot for…

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“I am now about to enter on my normal condition. For people are almost always in their graves. When we survey the long race…

— Thomas Hardy

“He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that…

— George Orwell

“We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their…

— Amy Plum

“How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss…

— Jodi Picoult

“I stood there, staring at my clothes. What does a mama wear to her son’s funeral? I looked over my wardrobe.There were outfits purchased…

— Shelley Ramsey

“He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as…

— Amanda DeWees

“There was one thing more he wanted from this funeral. He wanted to see the hearse pass by again, the body tilted for viewing,…

— Don DeLillo

“The dead are lonelier than the living ever can be. They can't hear each other through coffins and the earth....When I die I'd like…

— Saša Stanišić

“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said…

— Charles Dickens

“As they gently lowered it into the earth, all stared silently at the coffin but one: a young woman of twenty-five who glanced absentmindedly…

— Renate Linnenkoper