Sandy Bechtel

“Passage of time as a prop to the story, the story that has been told and retold so often it has lost its meaning, even to those of us who lived through it.”
― Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

“It didn’t bother them that the corpses would arrive at their doors, to quote Ruth Richardson, “compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust,…trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams…”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. In”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield