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“I can show you him, if you wish.” Aoife took me toward the edges of the light. Murchad’s body lay there, still on the grass. “Can I touch him?” “No. I alone can cross over between the lands of the living and the dead.”
Shauna Lawless • The Land of the Living and the Dead: an epic historical fantasy novel based on Irish history, myth and legend (Gael Song Book 3)
quiet as the grave.
Patrick deWitt • The Sisters Brothers
"Thou hast become dark and cannot hear me. When I die shall I not be like Enkidu? Sorrow enters my heart. I am afraid of death."
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
Speak or die. And for as long as you go on speaking, you will not die.
Paul Auster • The Invention of Solitude
Enemy, the spirit whispered. Burning Swan didn’t speak in actual words, but in complex impressions passed through their bond. Suddenly, the familiar clanks and hisses of the engine room sounded ominous, and the shadows in the corners deepened. Kerani extended her spiritual sense but felt no one other than herself and Terkell.
Will Wight • Dreadgod (Cradle Book 11)
There is a sense in which, in the broadest scope, it is the dead of human history.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
“If the dead are virtually memorialized, they never really die. The more in-depth the memorial and the greater its permanence, the more the deceased remain with the living.”36
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
“speak” esta herida abierta
Gloria Anzaldua • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)
The selves of the dead persist in memory but can also be perceived as actors in the lives of those who remember them and engage with their memories.