Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"I ain't goin' to let you die before I do," he assured her. "An'
then we'll leave it in our wills for us both to be buried that
way."

CHAPTER XVII

South they held along the coast, hunting, fishing, swimming, and
horse-buying. Billy shipped his purchases on the coasting
steamers. Through Del Norte and Humboldt counties they went, and
through Mendocino into Sonoma--counties larger than Eastern
states--threading the giant woods, whipping innumerable
trout-streams, and crossing countless rich valleys. Ever Saxon
sought the valley of the moon. Sometimes, when all seemed fair,
the lack was a railroad, sometimes madrono and manzanita trees,
and, usually, there was too much fog.