“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!”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, amazon.com
“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…”— Jojo Moyes
“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.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“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.”— Leigh Bardugo, amazon.com
“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.”— Bethany Griffin, amazon.com
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com