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“Who had he been? A failed father, a runaway husband. A son. A packet of unopened letters. He was dead; he was dead.”

— Anthony Doerr

“He was the son of his son--he was here, he was left behind.”

— Colum McCann

“My father’s dead.’ The words had a finality to them. His father was buried in Akielos beneath the columned halls of the silent, where…

— C.S. Pacat

“Have you met thy Lord, my son? Have you been dead before, father?”

— Toba Beta

“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

“Son," his father said. "Run faithfully to the end, and like all good men, you will die of having lived.”

— N.D. Wilson

“He rests in the graveyard of Ivry a suburb that always looks like the day the carnival comes down. And perhaps only I still…

— Giuseppe Ungaretti

“He was shadows. Cool, calm, dead. Like Conash. The boy who had been Conash, but was no longer. Dead boy. Dead Son. Born dead…

— T.C. Southwell

“And my dad, who was somehow still dead, did what he sometimes did―died again, seconds after my waking.”

— Jeannie Vanasco

“We are what stands between the living and the dead. Being an Undertaker is an honor, son.”

— Melissa Marr

“He was my dad, I was his son, and I was in the fight of my life.”

— Phil Knight

“..he felt no more than a boy again-but a very well-versed boy who couldn't help thinking of the scene described by these old words,…

— Tobias Wolff