Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.

I feel the terror of idleness,like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.

The grave's a fine and private place,But none, I think, do there embrace.

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying nea

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I'm going to enjoy this.”“What?” I asked. “Hell?

We all must face death and walk with it. But we also must love and live in it.

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.