Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka") . Isaac Bashevis Singer
About This Quote

The quote that begins with "Yes, I lay in my grave" is a direct quote from the book "Hanka" by Václav Havel. In this passage, Hanka, the heroine of the book, explains why she stayed in her grave and refused to be liberated from it. She tells her fiancé not to worry about her because once she was dead, she would be free. However, Hanka's fiancé is not convinced that she will be free.

He worries that she might not really be dead and will come back to haunt him. He begs her to move on and join him in life.

Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror And The Uncanny From The 1940S Until Now

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