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

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale