3 Quotes Tagged: funeral-rites

Full moon calls thee — Shai-hulud shall thou see;
Red the night, dusky sky,
Bloody death didst thou die.
We pray to a moon: she is round — Luck with us will then abound,
What we seek for shall be found
In the land of solid ground.

I never got to wash my mother's body when she died.
I return to take care of her in memory.
That's how I make peace when things are left undone.

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.