Burials Quotes

“Then Cardan comes in to view, a fond smile on his lips. When he speaks, he does so in a conspiratorial whisper. 'When I was a child, we would stage burials, like little plays. The mortals were dead, of course, or at least they were by the end.'

At that, I can finally speak. 'You're lying,' I say.

'Of course I'm lying,' he returns. 'This is your dream. Let me show you.' He presses a warm hand against my cheek. 'I love you, Jude. I've loved you for a long time. I will never stop loving you.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't dump no white folks in de hole jus' so."

"Whut tuh do 'bout de colored folks? Got boxes fuh dem too?

“Nope. They cain't find enough of 'em tuh go 'round. Jus' sprinkle plenty quick-lime over 'em and cover 'em up."

"Shucks! Nobody can't tell nothin' 'bout some uh dese bodies, de shape dey's in. Can't tell whether dey's white or
black."

The guards had a long conference over that. After a while they came back and told the men, "Look at they hair, when you cain't tell no other way. And don't lemme ketch none uh y'all dumpin' white folks, and don't be wastin' no boxes on colored. They's too hard tuh git holt of right now."

"They's mighty particular how dese dead folks goes tuh judgment," Tea Cake observed to the man working next to him. "Look lak dey think God don't know nothin' 'bout de Jim Crow law.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Who would bury their dead here?'

'They didn't put them in the earth,' Cassian said, his voice oddly muffled, as if that thick air gobbled up any echo. 'These were water burials.'

Nesta said, 'I'd rather be burned to ashes and cast to the wind then be left here.'

'Noted,' Cassian said.

'This is an evil place,' Azriel whispered. True fear shone in the shadowsinger's hazel eyes.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“When I die,
bury me in the sky—
no one is fighting over it.”
― Sara Abou Rashed

“If I had my druthers, I would be buried in a library or inside a coffin that resembled one--that's how I feel about them.”
― Junot Díaz