Quote by Italo Calvino

“I thought: "Perhaps Adelma is the city where you arrive dying and where each finds again the people he has known. This means I,…

— Italo Calvino

“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck…

— H.G. Wells

“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead…

— Frederick Busch

“At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“In time, they have lost their personalities and begun to resemble each other.”

— Mustafa Donmez

“But, as always happens after death, his face had grown handsomer, more dignified—more distinguished, in short, than it had ever been in life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“After that, I felt like I had two lives. There was the me I had been before the attack, the one people knew and…

— Maureen Johnson

“They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like…

— Maggie LaCroix

“I looked at the faces around me and I knew mine was like theirs. Faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost.…

— John Fante

“Something or someone lived or died so you could have this life. The mountain of the dead. They left you into the daylight.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It looked like I was the dead itself, and that isn't something someone should aspire to look like.”

— Kelley Armstrong

“Often, I felt there was something unsaid behind them, a deeper interpretation I was supposed to take from it and I wondered just how…

— Nicky James