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Does it help?” he asks. “The e-mailing.”She nods. “A tiny bit. It’s strange. You’re writing a letter to someone who’s never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

Melina Marchetta

Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed are believed to be possessed of supernatural powers which they did not enjoy in the flesh. They may also be dissatisfied or malignant in consequence of being suddenly deprived of life, and if they are neglected by the living, are apt to be revengeful. Therefore they must be cajoled and propitiated. Fear of beings belonging to a mysterious state or sphere of which he knew nothing continually haunted and terrified primitive man and induced in him what is known as" the dread of the sacred." It was every man's personal duty to attend to the demands or requirements of his deceased ancestors. At first he would succour his own immediate forebears with food and gifts; but it must have been borne in upon him that when his parents joined the great majority, the care of the spirits of their parents likewise devolved upon him... and, by degrees, he might even come to regard himself as responsible for the well-being of a line of spirit ancestors of quite formidable genealogy. These, through his neglect, might starve in their tombs; or, alternatively, they might crave his company. Because of vengeance or loneliness they might send disease upon him, for the savage almost invariably believes illness to be brought about by the action of jealous or neglected ancestors. The loneliness of the spirit-world is the dead man's greatest excuse for desiring the company of his descendants.

Lewis Spence

Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.

Joë Bousquet

Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

Lou Engle

There is nothing so actively alive as the dead.

Jessie Douglas Kerruish

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

Ali Smith

Do you want to stick needles in the living or scalpels in the dead?

Alice Broadway

It wasn’t one event, but a series of events followed by years of research adjudicated by panels of experts and committees of laypeople until a decision was finally made: we’ve been going about handling dead people all wrong.

Eda J. Vor

And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.

Sara Baume

Sometimes things happen that give me cause to believe I no longer exist. Car park barriers which do not lift when I drive towards them, automatic doors which do not open automatically as I approach.

Sara Baume

he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.

Yaa Gyasi

I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.

Catherine Lacey

The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know.

Hassan Blasim

The dead speak to those who listen. Be quieter than even them.

Kerri Maniscalco

I felt dead and sick inside.

Susan Hill

I hate being in my shoes...I am a deadman there!

Deyth Banger

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and Icried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

John Green

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

Anna Godbersen

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

Dean Koontz

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.

Madeline Miller

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

Anne Rice

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Garth Nix

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

David Almond

By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

Koushun Takami

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

John Fowles

He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers

Rick Riordan

The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.

Marya Hornbacher

Do you recall Fred Merriville?”She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?”“The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!

Georgette Heyer

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Bill Bryson

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.

E.M. Forster

There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

Adam Rex

Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this.

Vladimir Nabokov

I drag the body out into the snowdrifts, as far away from our shack as I can muster. I put her in a thicket of trees, where the green seems to still have a voice in the branches, and try not to think about the beasts that’ll soon be gathering. There’s no way of burying her; the ground is a solid rock of ice beneath us.I kneel beside her and want desperately to weep. My throat tightens and my head aches. Everything hurts inside. But I have no way of releasing it. I’m locked up and hard as stone.“I’m sorry, Mamma,” I whisper to the shell in front of me. I take her hand. It could belong to a glass doll. There’s no life there anymore. So I gather rocks, one by one, and set them over her, trying my best to protect her from the birds, the beasts, keep her safe as much as I can now. I pile the dark stones gently on her stomach, her arms, and over her face, until she becomes one with the mountain. I stand and study my work, feeling like the rocks are on me instead, then I leave the body for the forest and ice.

Rachel A. Marks

The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

Richard Kadrey

Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of cobwebs.'What's your name, dead man?' she said.

Terry Pratchett

And won’t he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life.Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all.

Melina Marchetta

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

J.K. Rowling

Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling.""It's called being dead," Ronan replied.

Maggie Stiefvater

It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.

Hidekaz Himaruya

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

Stephen King

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

John Green

He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fist but no not at me he won't look at me and his next words are so, so soft. "Because they're dead, love. They're all dead.

Tahereh Mafi

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

Jojo Moyes

Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.

Rick Riordan

Nice. I like a little desperation ina guy. It builds character.

Stacey Kade

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

Tess Gerritsen

The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead...

Assegid Habtewold

I am a dead man, that's all......My Brain doesn't workproperly.My Brain is diagonessed officially dead....

Deyth Banger

We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.

John Green

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Brandon Sanderson

Being dead does have its advantages.”-Alastor

Dana Michelle Burnett

I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living

Saji Ijiyemi

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

Lauren Oliver

The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between

Mitch Albom

A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle."It's a place for burying dead folk,"

Patrick Ness

After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.

Anthony Liccione

Sally's head plopped into the shallow water and rolled face up. For a while, the changing shades of pinks and oranges reflected across the surface of her dead eyes.

Shirley A. Martin

Leslie-Ann set down her own bucket and watched, marveling, as a quarter of an inch of water covered the bottom.When she looked away, she saw an older kid. She’d seen him around. But usually he was with Orc and she was too scared of Orc ever to get near him.She tugged on Howard’s wet sleeve. He seemed not to be sharing in the general glee. His face was severe and sad.“What?” he asked wearily.“I know something.”“Well, goody for you.”“It’s about Albert.”Howard sighed. “I heard. He’s dead. Orc’s gone and Albert’s dead and these idiots are partying like it’s Mardi Gras or something.”“I think he might not be dead,” Leslie-Ann said.Howard shook his head, angry at being distracted. He walked away. But then he stopped, turned, and walked back to her. “I know you,” he said. “You clean Albert’s house.”“Yes. I’m Leslie-Ann.”“What are you telling me about Albert?”“I saw his eyes open. And he looked at me.

Michael Grant

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