Death Quote by Homer Hickam

'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns... At the heart of the story…

— Bill Pullman

“I had heard of Virginia before only in passing, a "crazy ex" with whom things had not ended well. I was accustomed to this…

— Alana Massey

“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels…

— Georges Rodenbach

“There had never been a funeral in our town before, at least not during our lifetimes. The majority of dying had happened during the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured…

— Jennifer Vanderbes

“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief…

— Truman Capote

“The end of something, that specific mid-century American upper-middle-class WASP East Coast thing, the mercantile remnant of the Puritans, the ruling class tossed up…

— Henry Bromell

“I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties—not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela…

— Kay Kendall

“And so virtually every night for four and a half years, writing condolence letters and reading about these mostly young men and women, I…

— Robert M. Gates

“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers with…

— William Faulkner

“She had had such friends. Heaven was growing into a very wealthy place for her. Mother and father not only, and sisters, and one…

— Pansy

“The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe