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“There was only the two of them standing on top of the world, the rest of their lives waiting silently at their feet. They…

— Jenny O'Brien

“And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.”

— Edith Wharton

“I am here now, half alive, but alive. I am no longer waiting for the world outside to let me live, slow and sure,…

— Sarah Ann Walker

“What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.”

— Vietnamese

“Do you ever think about the rocks?" he said. "How does that go?" "Maybe they are alive and their hearts beat once every thousand…

— Robert Olmstead

“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

“Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.”

— Philip Pullman

“Sometimes I stand among the stones and wonder. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I weep. Sometimes nothing at all much happens. Life goes on. The…

— Thomas Lynch

“The dead are everywhere. Most are buried and forgotten. A very small number walk among you.”

— J.R. Rain

“... ‘the dead far outnumber the living.”

— Milan Kundera

“Long live the dead because we live in them.”

— Clarice Lispector

“They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had…

— Dan Brown