Breathing Quote by Michael Cunningham

“there is a depth to life beyond the simple dimensions that she can perceive and calculate in, and so . . . who knows?”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Death was such a mystery. The complete disappearance of something as complex and miraculous as a living, breathing human being had always been beyond…

— G.A. McKevett

“The long ghosts are walking the halls. When my mother died I felt expanded, slowly, durably, over time. I felt suffused with her truth,…

— Don DeLillo

“I imagine that's what being full-dead is like. And emptiness vast and absolute.”

— Isaac Marion

“Sizewise, she's always been just smaller than me. But I think of her and I feel like she's as big as the world.”

— Patrick Ness

“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“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

“Her body is so small for such a force of nature. Sometimes I forget that. She takes up such a big part of my…

— Laura Thalassa

“Oh my gosh, I thought, does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between…

— Muriel Barbery

“Do you ever got this feeling of being too small? That kind of size that can make you almost disappear. And everything around is…

— Maia Maranghello

“An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.”

— Zane Grey