“He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.”
“Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enough to bury her alive.”
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”
“If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”
“He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.”