“Something had been buried that was not yet dead.”
“Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.”
“By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.”
“Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.”
“I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.”
“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”