Quote by Peter Robinson

“Graham and the undertaker's assistants strapped the body to a wide board with a rope that crossed under his right shoulder and again over…

— Ron Hansen

“The Colorman slid off the morgue slab to the cold floor. Bullets pooped from his wounds and plopped on the stone as he limped…

— Christopher Moore

“in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these…

— Victor Hugo

“But don’t the wights get caught?” I said. “I mean, if they’re helping murder people, you’d think—” “Some do,” Emma said. “Wager you’ve heard…

— Ransom Riggs

“Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: “He was in much better health than we expected.” Well, yeah … except for the DEAD part.”

— Teresa Medeiros

“Before being taken to the Morgue, the body is left for a while on the embankment so they can try reviving it. A massive…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“The least dignified thing that can happen to a man is to be murdered. If he dies in his sleep he gets a respectful…

— Paul Theroux

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

— Anne Tyler

“Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands…

— Lisa R. Cohen

“The coroner was a jovial man, at least ten years past retirement age. His face was red from exertion, his hair white and straggly,…

— J.T. Ellison

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the…

— Octave Mirbeau

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

— J.R. Ward