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“Sometimes you can't really tell when you are happy until it is over and you are thinking about it later”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“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
“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
“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
“Άκρα σιγή και ησυχία επεκράτησεν εντός του σκοτεινού θαλάμου,
μετά τον τελευταίον βήχα και τον κλαυθμυρισμόν του θυγατρίου, τα οποία τόσον αποτόμως διεκόπησαν. Η Φραγκογιαννού είχε κύψει το πρόσωπόν της, και είχε στηρίξει με τας δύο χείρας το μέτωπον, και είχε παύσει να σκέπτεται.
Της εφαίνετο ότι δεν έζη πλέον. Ούτε η πνοή της ηκούετο. Πας θόρυβος είχε παύσει. Ούτε φλοξ έβρεμεν εις την εστίαν, ούτε βόμβος ηκούετο, και το ημίκαυστον φιτίλιον του λύχνου έφεγγε θλιβερώς. Η μικρά κανδήλα προ πολλού είχε σβήσει εις το εικονοστάσιον, και αι μορφαί των αγίων δεν εφαίνοντο πλέον.”
― Η φόνισσα
μετά τον τελευταίον βήχα και τον κλαυθμυρισμόν του θυγατρίου, τα οποία τόσον αποτόμως διεκόπησαν. Η Φραγκογιαννού είχε κύψει το πρόσωπόν της, και είχε στηρίξει με τας δύο χείρας το μέτωπον, και είχε παύσει να σκέπτεται.
Της εφαίνετο ότι δεν έζη πλέον. Ούτε η πνοή της ηκούετο. Πας θόρυβος είχε παύσει. Ούτε φλοξ έβρεμεν εις την εστίαν, ούτε βόμβος ηκούετο, και το ημίκαυστον φιτίλιον του λύχνου έφεγγε θλιβερώς. Η μικρά κανδήλα προ πολλού είχε σβήσει εις το εικονοστάσιον, και αι μορφαί των αγίων δεν εφαίνοντο πλέον.”
― Η φόνισσα
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