It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments - changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day. Libba Bray
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>So I am doing what seems the... - Virginia Woolf
  2. Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my... - Nicholas Sparks
  3. Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again. - Robert Jordan
  4. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas
  5. Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly... - Henry Scott Holland
More Quotes By Libba Bray
  1. I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
  2. But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
  3. I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.
  4. You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?
  5. I know because I read... Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
Related Topics