Quotes and great writing that hit the mark

BURIAL RITES – Hannah Kent

P 84 Agnes

God has had His chance to free me, and for reasons known to Him alone, He has pinned me to ill fortune, and although I have struggled, I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate.

A LOVE LETTER FROM A STRAY MOON - Jay Griffiths

P 6-7

I recovered from polio, and I grew fierce, boxing, playing football and swimming, and I remember those days of skates, bicycles and boats as if it was a girl’s boyhood, those days when I was sleek and disobedient as an otter, tempestuously playful and reveling in it. I was sent to catechism class with my sister and we escaped and went to an orchard to eat quinces. I will never forget how sweet was the fruit of our disobedience in that orchard.

A JOKE FROM MY CHARISMATIC ACCOUNTANT – (Old but Gold!)

On realizing both our paternal ancestry’s go back to Tipperary, Ireland, Jim tells me there are only four words a traveler in Ireland need use – preferably together but they can be broken up into pairs

WHALE                                OIL                                       BEEF                                    HOOKED

(I think it could be at least a chapter heading for a book I am writing that has links to Ireland)

The sublime in a time of COVID