Writer Quotes

Happy trails, Angus!

/ Carolyn Watson

Angus Brian MacDonald Obituary

I love reading obituaries.  The good ones make me wish I’d known the deceased.

Angus Brian MacDonald wrote his own.  It is funny and honest, one of the best I’ve ever read.

“My little dog Scarlett died Sept. 2013, and there really are no words to describe what a total destresser Scarlett was for me. So I guess if there’s a place in the after-life where little dogs and old dawgs go, then that’s where you’ll find me and Scarlett. Maybe I’ll see you all there sometime.”

Rest in peace Mr. MacDonald.

http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-549326-angus-brian-macdonald.html

 

Trigger Warning

/ Carolyn Watson

“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.”

—Neil Gaiman

I am halfway through Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances and I am spellbound.  I haven’t read anything of Gaiman’s in a while and I’m so glad I rediscovered him.  With apologies to the dozens of books in my must-read pile (some of which have been there for years), I may have to indulge in more of his work.

“Damn you tiny assassin”

/ Carolyn Watson

“Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more – ‘damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial’.”

–Russell Brand, Articles of Faith

 

Six times the little devils stung me in the ankle.  My foot swelled three times its size.

I had the BEST pity party.