“The lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad.”
“If there are more dead than living, then the world is about death, and the question is: What are we to do with all the death? Who is going to remember all the dead?”
“But, Isobel thought with a bleak and sad smile, what better place to bury what was dead than in a cemetery?”
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”