#ect

Come to the jacaranda tree at seven o'clock and you will hear something to your advantage. Destroy this note.' No signature, no clue to the identity. Just what sort of heroine do you think I am? Phryne asked the air. Only a Gothic novel protagonist would receive that and say, 'Goodness, let me just slip into a low-cut white nightie and put on the highest heeled shoes I can find,' and, pausing only to burn the note, slip out of the hotel by a back exit and go forth to meet her doom in the den of the monster - to be rescued in the nick of time by the strong-jawed hero (he of the Byronic profile and the muscles rippling beneath the torn shirt). 'Oh, my dear,' Phryne spoke aloud as if to the letter-writer. 'You don't know a lot about me, do you? ↗

— Kerry Greenwood

#death

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#catholicism #death #incarnation #resurrection #death

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence. ↗

— Tom Perrotta

#connection #life #silence #communication

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#insane #insanity #perfectly #rational #world

Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence. ↗

— Holly Hood

#dying #perfectly-hopeless #death

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#conflict #respect #communication

A brick could be used to keep you three inches away from death.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Psychology is a subject of life, death, and in-betweens. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #psychology #subject #death

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help. ↗

— Les Aspin

#come #finding #food #help #kurdish

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#crime #detective #murder #death