his apartment QUOTES

1 " Still, his apartment has that dreamlike quality

of feeling like home though I know it’s not. Not mine anymore —
but how many people get to visit the past without hurting anything?

To come back and drink the same coffee
from the same never-quite-clean cup? "

― Jameson Fitzpatrick

2 " When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all. "

― Ramsey Campbell , Holes for Faces

3 " What is on that memory stick, if you don’t mind me asking?”
She was following him back into his apartment when he asked, and realized she still clutched it.
“Something I never want to see again. "

― Pixie Lynn Whitfield , Through These Wicked Nights (The Guardians of the Night #2)

4 " The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept?

Such a house could even be the whole world. "

― Lydia Millet , How the Dead Dream

5 " By not talking about death with our loved ones, not being clear through advanced directives, DNR (do not resuscitate) orders, and funeral plans, we are directly contributing to this future ... and a rather bleak present, at that. Rather than engage in larger societal discussions about dignified ways for the terminally ill to end their lives, we accept intolerable cases like that of Angelita, a widow in Oakland who covered her head with a plastic bag because the arthritic pain of her gnarled joints was too much to bear. Or that of Victor in Los Angeles, who hung himself from the rafters of his apartment after his third unsuccessful round of chemotherapy, leaving his son to discover his body. Or the countless bodies with decubitus ulcers, more painful for me to care for them even babies or suicides. When these bodies come into the funeral home, I can only offer my sympathy to their living relatives, and promise to work to ensure that more people are not robbed of a dignified death by a culture of silence. "

― Caitlin Doughty , Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory