Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“Because if I was some “serial bride”, you would be dead already. After all, aren’t they?”

— B.M. Hardin

“The widower was so full of questions that I half expected him to ask for an identity card. The only thing I carry in…

— Joy Kagawa

“The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.”

— Dale Carnegie

“gentlemen, you are, as i am, in search of a woman who, must have passed this way, for i see a corpse.”

— Dumas, Alexandre

“...A widow has freedoms a wife does not. But when I look at you, I do not see obstacles for my career, I see-"…

— Marie Brennan

“wife?—rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her,”

— Herman Melville

“If I don’t have me, then what’s it all worth anyway? If I’m living, then I’m living for who I am, what I stand…

— John D. Patten

“A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch…

— L.M. Montgomery

“This is my lifemate, who remains unclaimed and quite happy about it.”

— Christine Feehan

“Widowed were not those alive, but those who were dead.”

— Cristiane Serruya

“You are alive, and you don’t need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.”

— Miguel Ruiz

“Once death arrives at your doorstep, your last chance is gone without a trace.”

— K. Weikel