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“The old man laughed. Now that I did find unsettling. They always laugh right before they kill you. After the long explanation of their…

— Iain Rowan

“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He…

— Henning Mankell

“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”

— James Baldwin

“Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.”

— Jan Karon

“Was contemplating my purpose - when the notion chose to arrive - that I'll be dead much, much longer - than I will ever…

— Joseph DiFrancesco

“Could we have been so much in the midst of life? With such a sense of grand adventure about it all?”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Don’t you see you are a corpse too after what was done to you and the true life is waiting for you to pick…

— Michael Gruber

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure…

— Vaddey Ratner

“That's what the dead would tell the living, if they could - to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.”

— Claudia Gray

“And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I've been with Mr. Locke for several hundred years now." He tossed her a wink. "I should hope in that time he would share…

— Jennifer Turner

“As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.”

— Thomas Pynchon