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“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules.”
― From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
― From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
“Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much. But often, and this is the lonely part, they only matter to you.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“After studying the great ones,
I found little to sustain me.
Then I read about Errol Flynn,
who said, as he died,
“This isn’t so damn bad,”
and that gave me courage.
—Jean Arnold, “The Ridiculous,” Walking on Cork (The Maecenas Press, 1991)”
― Walking on Cork: Poems
I found little to sustain me.
Then I read about Errol Flynn,
who said, as he died,
“This isn’t so damn bad,”
and that gave me courage.
—Jean Arnold, “The Ridiculous,” Walking on Cork (The Maecenas Press, 1991)”
― Walking on Cork: Poems
“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
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