“So am I dead? How many kinds of living and dead and living dead and dead living had I been in just these few months, these few days, after the stasis of plain old human living and dying? I deserved some kind of existential medal.”
“Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living.”
“I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.”
“I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.”
“I cannot live, if I am already dead.”
“Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen”