This death expert said it's everything underground that makes grass so green. That dead things make the living. I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.
Elizabeth Scott
Related When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What ab... ALICE SEBOLD There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is ... VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide ELIZABETH KAY But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving? "Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro... TRACY WARD Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone. ANTHONY T. HINCKS My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, th... JAMIE WYETH The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but th... NEIL GAIMAN The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... How do you ever hold on to anybody? ELIZABETH WEIN Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD [The employees who toured with the Dead will feel the pinch, as well.] There's crew and there's secu... THE GRATEFUL DEAD Every silver linings got a touch of grey I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will sur... THE GRATEFUL DEAD The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Grampa says the grass is not greener on the other side. All grass changes with the seasons, it grows... CHRIS DISANO DAVENPORT What's really good is (a pile of) grass cuttings or a decomposing log, a dead tree. Make sure it's i... CAROLYN LIDGE If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the de... TIMOTHY J. KELLER Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD The dead do not hurt you; only the living do. TESS GERRITSEN Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the liv... GEORGE ARNOLD Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the liv... GEORGE ARNOLD 'Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the li... GEORGE ARNOLD The focus is on the living, not the dead. LAWRENCE MCLEARY There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the... JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. JACK KEROUAC Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. ... JIM BUTCHER On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match. CAROLINE WOZNIACKI The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead nev... PETER HELLER To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living. GILBERT K. CHESTERTON My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in t... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living. HAROLD MACMILLAN The first thing I would say is . . . rip out that stupid Kentucky bluegrass and put in native grass.... DAVID SALMAN ...what I'm saying isn't for him. If my words were for him they would be different; softer, and more... CHEYENNE BERANDI Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead beca... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM This is the gate between the living and the dead", he said. "You are still living. The others on the... AIMEE CARTER Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dea... TERRY PRATCHETT Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't want to see more development on the waterfront. Knock it down, put some benches in there, so... KEVIN BARRY If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. CHUCK PALAHNIUK No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know... C.S. LEWIS When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and... SAM MENDES Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?" Allie considered this. "Meaning?" "Meaning, ... NEAL SHUSTERMAN One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. R. SOUTHWELL Back then, in 1968, everything was suspect - family, government, and obviously the family unit in ... GEORGE A. ROMERO We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON
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