“The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...”
“What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?”
“The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.”
“Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
“If you don’t live though and drop dead from it, can the Simi eat you? Akri says the Simi can’t eat no living people, but he never said no doubt them newly dead people. Maybe that’s why he don’t let me near them fresh dead. (Simi)”