dead Quotes

“Night has patterns that can be read
less by the living than by the dead.”

“The presence of the other boys did not comfort me; our dead come for their vengeance regardless if witnesses.”

“Our goddess of the moon is gifted with magic, with power over the dead. She could banish the dreams, if she wished. She did not.”

“He stood with her body in his arms in the silent room and cold facts battered him like waves sweeping in from the sea: she was dead; she was white; she was a woman; he had killed her; he was black; he might be caught; he did not want to be caught; if he were they would kill him. ”

“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.”

“I’m not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I’m just a corpse who wants not to be.”

“We like having the walls and roofs over our heads. Otherwise we’d just be wandering in an open field of dust somewhere. [...] I imagine that’s what being full-dead is like. An emptiness vast and absolute.”

“I am dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.”

“There are so many options for dying in this new world. [...] All roads lead to us, the Dead, and our very unglamorous immortality.”

“Beg forgiveness, indeed! After fourteen years! I see no purpose to it. The dead are dead; those who remain behind cannot forget. But then, just as I am about to close my heart against Ann, I recollect my part in the madness that came to our village in 1692. And I know I am as guilty as Ann or any of the girls in that circle of accusers.”

“Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.”