Samantha Ternovetsky Pike

“One recent experiment, for instance, demonstrated that people who died shortly after undergoing chemotherapy decomposed far more slowly than what I’d since begun to think of as “organic” or “all natural” bodies. Chemotherapy, in other words, bore more than a passing resemblance to antemortem embalming, which was not a particularly comforting notion.”
― Jefferson Bass, Flesh and Bone

“Carpe librum, meant “Seize the book.”
― Jefferson Bass, The Bone Thief

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“The story of her death was written in bone.”
― Jefferson Bass, Carved in Bone