Quote by John Glenday

“My dad always said that water makes the dead feel safe. Nothing draws them more. Or hides them better.”

— Kendare Blake

“When you hold hands with the dead, eventually they pull you into the grave. ”

— Steven Montano

“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We…

— David Vann

“The dead are a heap more trouble than the living.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.”

— Victor Hugo

“Sometimes the dead don't stay where you put them.”

— Dianne Salerni

“We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep…

— Joan Didion

“If they die, we bury them; if they don't, we won't.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“It struck me again how powerful and raw our experiences around death are, how carefully we keep them concealed and yet how close to…

— Random House Canada

“As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“The dead have the easy road: they know the way, because that decision has already been made for them.  Only the living are lost.”

— Steven Montano