Books Quote by John Green

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell…

— Connie Willis

“To show love to the dead, we must be kind to the living.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle of the…

— Connie Willis

“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire…

— T.S. Eliot

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

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

— Dean Koontz

“Dead men's words are so much more powerful than those of the living”

— Jeffrey Archer

“If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Come here into the candlelight. I’m not afraid to look at the dead. For when the dead come they have as much right to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the masses of dead flesh, at…

— Carrie Ryan

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

— Jennifer Latham

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin