Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.

Atârnați tăblițe deasupra mormintelor, ciopliți în piatră că totul a fost degeaba! Spuneți-le asta și morților!...

Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens for the angels with whom, on some level, she wanted to commune.