Quote by Jarod Kintz

“Good grief, he’d fallen into his death sleep with a hard-on. Was it possible for a stiff to be that stiff?”

— Kerrelyn Sparks

“The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this had nothing to do with rigor mortis.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“-I thought you were dead. -I was, a bit.”

— Jennifer Bosworth

“The moment you will be most stiff is when you die - you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well,…

— Richard Lloyd Parry

“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…

— E. Nesbit

“I thought you were dead." "Me too, baby, me too," he said weakly.”

— Leigh Fallon

“It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I’m not dead either.”

— George R.R. Martin

“You were banging hard enough to wake the dead." "And you're lovely enough to rouse them.”

— Veronica Wolff

“But in the same token, I wondered how I was still standing. Why wasn’t I six feet under from the shock of what had…

— Katie Ashley

“He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke…

— Hermann Hesse

“Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Relax,” he whispered. “You’re as stiff as a board.” No, I thought, you’re as stiff as a board. Which was true, I could feel…

— Karina Halle