Canyon Quote by Sarah Ockler

“They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Everything that lived, died.”

— Leonard Pitts Jr

“I did not look about me, though sometimes I glanced up into the great bowl of the night sky and at the constellations scattered…

— Susan Hill

“This life wasn't all there was; there was more, much more, and when people spoke of death as "passing" they were exactly right, because…

— Linda Howard

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

— Isaac Marion

“The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists.”

— Ben Monopoli

“But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I’d been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any I’d ever…

— Marya Hornbacher

“It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.”

— David Wroblewski

“To continue, I had to see the world with clear eyes, to focus on the essential. We only pay attention to rare things, and…

— Kevin Powers

“...this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it is would…

— Wendell Berry

“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”

— Donna Tartt