C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis
(November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963)

Man must endure his going hence.

Oxfordshire, England

Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty
(April 13, 1909 - Jult 23, 2001)

For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.
-The Optimist's Daughter.

Jackson, Mississippi

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
(September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940)

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Rockville, Maryland

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf
(January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941)

Against you I will fling myself,
Unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Rodmell, Sussex, England

Robert Lee Frost

Robert Lee Frost
(March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963)

I had a lover's quarrel with the world

Bennington, Vermont

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens
-Mark Twain-
(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Elmira, New York

Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter
(May 15, 1890 - September 18, 1980)

In My End is My Beginning.

Indian Creek, Texas