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“-No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been…

— Pär Lagerkvist

“what i really need is a dead man.”

— Chester Himes

“The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you. I was still…

— Sarah Dessen

“These were the people he could trust with his life. So which one wanted him dead?”

— Jaimey Grant

“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”

— James Baldwin

“I just couldn't be dead any longer.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“But when he died, I saw - nothing. There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then…

— Sarah Ockler

“Perhaps they were dead and imagined they were living? Perhaps everyone was dead? Perhaps he’d always been dead? That what he’d always assumed was…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn’t given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Sometimes I think the dead have it easy. The difficult part is staying alive, and more than that, wanting to stay alive.”

— Andrea Busfield

“...to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of dying?”

— Richard Adams