Isaac Marion - Dead Quotes

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Now I'm just standing here on the conveyor. Along for the ride. I reach the end, turn around, and go back the other way. The world has been distilled. Being dead is easy. After a few hours of this, I notice a female on the opposite conveyor. She doesn't lurch or groan like most of us. Her head just lolls from side to side. I like that about her. That she doesn't lurch or groan. I catch her eye and stare at her.

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The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

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But we don't remember those lives. We can't read our diaries.' 'It doesn't matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.' 'But can we choose that?' 'I don't know.' 'We're Dead. Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

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Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days...ago." I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead." He nods. "Marr...iage.

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Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it's against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.

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I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.

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Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead? Or do we just have nothing left to say?

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I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

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