To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more. It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who…
Hell, i'm pretty much dead already.
I can't profess to understand God's plan, Christ promised the resurrection of the dead. I just thought he had something a little different in mind.
And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed.
I’ve been buried, but I’m not dead. I’m not dead. I can’t breathe. What is that sound? Is someone here? No, it’s me, crying and using precious air… Tremors shake my entire body, but the box I’m in does not shift at all.
I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.