Clear Quote by Libba Bray

“It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments - changing the linens, choosing a…

— Libba Bray

“After that, Lily was recuperating and then dealing with significant financial hardships. The birth was described to me by Lily and also by her…

— Kristen Ashley

“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They…

— Toni Morrison

“Death, so permanent for the dead, should be more than just an afternoon activity for the mourners.”

— Noah Hawley

“A death is always exciting, always makes you realise how alive you are, how vulnerable but so-far-lucky; but the death of somebody close gives…

— Iain Banks

“ This morning, on the avenue, my death was walking next to me, under the plane-trees. I came back home, lied on the bed.…

— Christian Bobin

“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of…

— Pema Chödrön

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

— Libba Bray

“We might as well face it: Death is a bore. It is even harder on the survivors than on the deceased, who at least…

— Alan Bradley

“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“So Janie began to think of Death. Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West. The great…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.

— Lauren Oliver