"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases"
- Thomas Browne
"Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried ..."
- Holly Black
"Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell."
- Henry Ward Beecher