Quote by Stephen King

“The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music…

— Fern Schumer Chapman

“Do the dead sing? Do they love?”

— Stephen King

“I think sometimes the dead cherish us, as we do them,”

— Diana Gabaldon

“There are days when you wonder why these wretched old tatters of paper run my life. It's just leftover scraps from vanished lives, right?…

— Dana Cameron

“I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I stared at the objects before me: cold coffee in a cup of thick white glass, folded napkin, spoon with a liquid coffee shadow…

— Mary Gaitskill

“I work all day, and get half drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain edges will…

— Philip Larkin

“This hand, it is mine, yet when I pick up a pencil it has a mind of its own. It has a story to…

— Susan L. Marshall

“Time passes, and we “measure out our lives in coffee spoons.”

— Śāntideva

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.”

— Victor Hugo

“The spirits of the dead are all around us, but it is we, the living, that are the true hungry ghosts.”

— John Dolan