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  • Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down and I'll wake up in a morgue.

    Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.156, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

    Air   Purple   Lunch  
  • Want to come back to the morgue with me after lunch? (Tate) I shudder at the thought of the pickup line you must have used the night you met LaShonda. Come with me, baby, and see my collection of stiffs. (Simone)

    Baby   Night   Lunch  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.7, Macmillan
  • You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

    Gun   Knives   Want  
    "Fictional character: Jim Malone". "The Untouchables", www.imdb.com. 1987.
  • When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

    College   Two   Funeral  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966.

    Kim Harrison (2009). “For A Few Demons More”, p.48, HarperCollins UK
  • The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

    Husband   Home   Makeup  
  • I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

    Mother   Father   Believe  
  • True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

    Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 08, 1975.
  • Then I went to the morgue and saw that those bones weren't yours, heard your voice again in my head" -his eyes closed- "and once more, nothing else mattered.

    Eye   Voice   Saws  
  • The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

    Quoted by Roger Shattuck in "A Native Son of Paris", "Jean Cocteau and the French Scene". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1984.
  • The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had gone seriously wrong while she slept.

    Gone   Bigs   Drawers  
  • When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug your friends, your girlfriend, your family. It just gives you an appreciation for the life that surrounds you. At the same time you understand how fragile it is. That you don't need to be an idiot or get so angry at times.

    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • ...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher

    Lying   Eye   Gowns  
    Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.359, Penguin Group
  • Do you know where Jason is?” she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. “Tired of your Bluebell already?” A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri’s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. “Yeah, that’s it. I’m building a harem.

    Tired   Cutting   Flames  
    Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.727, Penguin
  • Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

    Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.123
  • I saw so many kids 22, 19, with holes the size of a dime and they're dead. It's a gunshot and of course those kids thought they were as tough as nails, they never expected to be dead but they're gone. It's kinda nice to walk out of the County Coroner's Office with a couple of sayings, you know? "You're not so tough being dead on a morgue table."

    Couple   Nice   Kids  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

    Lying   Cities   Wings  
  • Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

  • I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

    Passion   Zinc   Joy  
    Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”
  • Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.

    "The Light Fantastic (Discworld, Book 2)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.
  • They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence.

    Light   Odds   Blood  
  • Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think of how they can do nothing about it.

    Thinking   Steel   Body  
    Source: therumpus.net
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