“Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...”
“Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.”
“If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.”
“The (cancer) cells, technically speaking, are immortals. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years”
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
“The snow fell straight and slow, adding another layer to the drifts and covering roads, trees, bushes, and bodies, the living and the dead as one beneath its veil.”