Quote by John Green

“It looked like precisely the sort of place where a living body might go if it wanted to become a dead one.”

— William Ritter

“It looked nothing like America. It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I…

— John Green

“I started to wonder what it might have felt like to live your life in a place someone else had carved.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I imagine that's what being full-dead is like. And emptiness vast and absolute.”

— Isaac Marion

“I like being alive, but being dead might be an interesting adventure as well.”

— Emma Hamm

“Perhaps they were dead and imagined they were living? Perhaps everyone was dead? Perhaps he’d always been dead? That what he’d always assumed was…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“I didn't understand the living fascination with a world of perfected dead.”

— Darin Bradley

“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”

— James Baldwin

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

— Laura Thalassa

“This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been…

— Rupert Thomson

“It was like death, except I had to go on living.”

— Anna Quindlen

“I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.”

— Corey Ann Haydu