Chuck Visovsky

“Children. There was no particular gurney for children and few things made Benke feel as uncomfortable as seeing the empty spaces left over on the trolley when he was transporting the body of a child; the little figure under the white cover, pushed up against the headboard. The lower half empty, the sheet smooth. That flat sheet was death itself.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“Though no law or code of ethics required doctors to ask permission before taking tissue from a living patient, the law made it very clear that performing an autopsy or removing tissue from the dead without permission was illegal.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“With all due respect,’ Elisphae mutters, ‘the world would not miss us.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue