Death Quote by Mariana Enríquez — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice.”

“And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that slayed. In another moment, he would fade, slide back into the new Ben, the one called Zombie, and I understood something I hadn’t before: He was dead, the object of my schoolgirl desires, just as the schoolgirl who desired him was dead.”

“Have you ever, for even a second, thought about how hard it is for people like me just to stay alive?”

“Part of her followed him, wherever it was that he went.”

“Ah, how much more soothing”

“There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.”