Death Quote by Garth Nix — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Time and death sleep side by side.”

“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”

“My parents are going to kill me!”

“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”

“And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.”

“Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.”

“I took his poor, broken head into my lap and cradled it.”

“But I couldn’t help thinking—Who the hell eats bats? Probably nothing.”

“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”