Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Vargo climbed in, twisted and turned a few times to get comfortable on the pillow, then pulled the lid down and latched it. As…

— Terry Pratchett

“The idea that the spirits of those once tortured in the house might still be there was the avenue his imagination began to explore.…

— Matthew Williams

“His thoughts were clearly still shoving him further away, toward some ultimate dark drama that he might or might not have actually lived through…

— Walter Kirn

“This kindly unjudging judgment of the Swede could well have been a new development in Jerry, compassion a few hours old. That can happen…

— Philip Roth

“There was one thing more he wanted from this funeral. He wanted to see the hearse pass by again, the body tilted for viewing,…

— Don DeLillo

“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite…

— Anonymous

“Nor can we see the coffin of a person we have known, without experiencing some new shock of loss. In this respect, a coffin…

— Andrew Motion

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“where the Coffins had lived ever since Noah's flood (if, indeed, they had not merely returned thither after that temporary displacement),”

— Charles Kingsley

“How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss…

— Jodi Picoult

“He wrote with terrible rapidity, the twig in his fingers rilling blood without renewal; but in the middle of a sentence his hands denied…

— Ambrose Bierce

“And with returning awareness, he saw as if for the first time the bodies of the men that he had killed to get to…

— C.S. Pacat