Giovannis-room Quote by James Baldwin

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

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“And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?”

— Franz Wright

“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.”

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

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“The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you. I was still…

— Sarah Dessen

“The dead always have stories to tell. They just need the living to listen.”

— Jennifer Latham

“Somehow, by dealing with the dead, I had never felt so alive.”

— Karina Halle

“The dead don't see but I do.”

— Ally Condie

“The dead were not so scary. The living were the ones you had to watch out for.”

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“They didn't know being dead is only being asleep, and you're bound to wake up somewhere or other, either where you go to sleep…

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“And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before…

— James Baldwin

“The dead were too ...present.”

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