Corpse Quote by Lindsay Buroker

“She could never understand how it was to be carved from death right from the start or how it felt to know the shadows…

— Tim Curran

“Sometimes it gets old, living in the shadows. Somehow they’re not quite so dark when you’re around.”

— A.L. Jackson

“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself…

— Sheila Heti

“The fact that he was dead hadn’t worried her. After all, she had grown up surrounded by the dead. She knew it was not…

— Gemma Holden

“I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did…

— Diane Setterfield

“When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness?”

— Mary Oliver

“Oh, but somehow, some way, maybe she had and just didn't know it. Those strange workings destined to always end with her standing like…

— Rebecca Hill

“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.”

— Robert Wells

“I lived with the shadows, knowing only they would truly understand what I was feeling.”

— Nicole Belanger

“Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which nodded their…

— Émile Zola

“The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But…

— L.M. Montgomery

“In the cellar, the two young women were shrouded in darkness as if they were already in their grave.”

— Phillipa Gregory