A Tomb With a View Quotes

“The word ‘mummies’ conjures an image of a corpse wrapped in bandages, but that is not what these look like. They are more like bog bodies, stained and tanned and tough, except that they are so very dry. They bring to mind wood shavings, wasp nests, dead leaves, dust. They are skin stretched over bone stretched over time. More parchment than person. Autumn made flesh.”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

“Burial grounds are like libraries of the dead, indexes to lives long gone,”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

“What, I wonder, does Monty James remember, in his modest grave in Eton Town Cemetery? The things he loved, perhaps. The smell of pipe smoke and candlewax in long winter evenings; a ghost story told after dark.”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

“Seeds sown long ago still yield their blighted harvest.”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

“If you visit, take time to notice the three stone skulls on the gate. Dickens once felt compelled to venture out at midnight in order to admire these by the flash of a lightning storm.”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

“This is how it goes. You come to mourn and, later, to be mourned. The stones spread slowly across the earth, a coral reef of remembrance.”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

“Graveyards, as Sheldon K. Goodman said, are libraries of sorts; their stories bound in stone. Council libraries may be closing, or shrinking, but graveyards – those which remain active – are forever replenishing their stock of spines.”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

“Jim Tipton, founder of the Find A Grave website, calls cemeteries ‘parks for introverts’,”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

“Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it.”
― Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards