Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Stephen KingSpeaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
Stephen KingShe is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.
Stephen King