Quote by Martin Fletcher

“Perhaps they were dead and imagined they were living? Perhaps everyone was dead? Perhaps he’d always been dead? That what he’d always assumed was…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead.”

— Tim O'Brien

“I like being alive, but being dead might be an interesting adventure as well.”

— Emma Hamm

“There, there, it is but a story," she comforted sadly. "Like all dead people become.”

— M.E. Vaughan

“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“I sensed that he was dead, but wasn't sure if death was forever. It seemed best to stay nearby, in case the chance came…

— Sonya Hartnett

“...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?”

— Paul Simon

“He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.”

— Nick Hornby

“...for he had learned from others of their kind that death seemed to bring small comfort from the worrisome sphere of life…”

— Neal Barrett Jr

“Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.”

— Candace Fleming

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”

— Adam Silvera

“He saw his coming death, and wasn’t afraid of it anymore. He’d miss all the good stuff to follow, but he’d help make it…

— James S.A. Corey