Quote by Mark Bowden

“Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its feet, on…

— Louise Brown

“Flesh, bodies, nerves, legs… things were getting all mixed up in his mind. It seemed to be filled with flesh, cloyed with the sweetish…

— Humphrey Cobb

“He imagined dying and being cut open and there were all his bones and muscles and his bared arteries and capillaries leading to a…

— Ali Shaw

“some of it his wife’s. Her lithe body lay haphazardly on the floor by her husband’s feet. Her throat was open, the wound deep…

— Rob Sinclair

“They found him late that night. He was floating head-down in the benjo, the long, deep trench of rain-churned shit that served as the…

— Richard Flanagan

“There had been a trapped thought about to emerge, something essential and unspeakable, released by the mention of those blank-faced soldiers. Now it was…

— Donna Tartt

“For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and arrived and…

— Wendell Berry

“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the…

— Haruki Murakami

“it’s full of the remains of those who tried to flee. Some were incinerated entirely. But others, probably overcome with smoke, escaped the worst…

— Suzanne Collins

“His mind and his flesh had separated, his brain had sat high and frightened above the mule of his body, a beast of burden…

— Adam Johnson

“We should bury the bodies,” Sam said. Gabriel shook her head. “We haven’t got time. There are two hundred and sixty seven bodies here.…

— Phillip W. Simpson

“What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his…

— Alice Munro