Corpse Bride Quotes

“Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?”
― Tim Burton, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story

“Why would you want to go up there, when people are dying to get down here?”
― Tim Burton, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story

“If I touch a burning candle
I can feel no pain
If you cut me with a knife
It's still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
And it seems I still have a tear to shed”
― Tim Burton, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story

“Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called "ghost marriages." Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a "wedding," and bury the couple together... A black market has sprung up to supply corpse brides. Marriage brokers—usually respectable folk who find brides for village men—account for most of the middlemen. At the bottom of the supply chain come hospital mortuaries, funeral parlors, body snatchers—and now murderers.
—"China's Corpse Brides: Wet Goods and Dry Goods" The Economist, July 26, 2007”
― Danica Novgorodoff, The Undertaking of Lily Chen