Quote by Megan Curd

“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how.”

— Ann VanderMeer

“How could one find out about life when one was about to die?”

— Richard Wright

“I was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. We were afraid of the dead because we never could tell when they…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“I never thought life could get more complicated after death. I guess I was terribly mistaken.”

— Christina L. Barr

“I used to toy with the notion that when we die we find out what our lives have amounted to, finally. I'd never imagined…

— Anne Tyler

“Trying to figure out what dead people intended could drive you mad, especially when many people didn't really know what they wanted even when…

— Sara J. Henry

“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”

— James Baldwin

“I once met a man who was paranoid about dying, so i shot him”

— Mark Read

“Suffice it to say, we were horrified by the entire concept of dying, even if we weren't the ones with the death sentence.”

— Tosca Lee

“I needed to know that Death was here, in the room, and that I was too fast, too young, and too smart for him.”

— Tony O'Neill

“We could only pay attention to one dying person at a time.”

— Michael Kimball

“Going through the motions, like a person who was already dead and just didn’t know it yet.”

— Christa Faust