If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an….

It is life that hurts you not death..

Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal..

And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open h….

When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when winter is at last over. . .can we not hea….

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories..

You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death; the crown of flowers I….

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded..

I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him as good cloth, rich fabri….

...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she knew that her true love was there, somewhere, living….

Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorr….

His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the most ordinary words b….

Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar….

These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world….

Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the….

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul..