Ashes To Admin Quotes

“So I suppose the neat conclusion would be to keep that in mind, befriend death, turn a light on, extinguish those shadows, and live well; because that’s the bit that matters.”
― Evie King, Ashes to Admin: The Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

“I did a very unscientific Twitter poll to ask if people were hearing and talking more about death due to the pandemic, outside of the factual news arena. Our survey said no, by a whisker. It was the old referendum split that keeps cropping up like a curse. The number of the beast is now surely 48/52.”
― Evie King, Ashes to Admin: The Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

“Don’t get me wrong, I’m not sad about it. I once Tweeted: ‘woke up at 11am, Curly Wurly for breakfast, now off to watch Buffy in the bath. Ask me again if I regret not having kids’. I still stand by that and will happily die alone on that hill.”
― Evie King, Ashes to Admin: The Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

“Making a death appointment grimly amused me at first, sounding as it did, like I was arranging a meeting with the actual grim reaper to complete the admin side of dying in his office. I stood up at my desk as I put my coat on to leave for my first ever registrar meeting and dramatically announced ‘I must go, I have an appointment,’ pause for effect, ‘with death.”
― Evie King, Ashes to Admin: The Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

“You’re going to die. That’s not meant as a threat, by the way. Just establishing a premise.”
― Evie King, Ashes to Admin: The Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

“We were up on the cliff edge on a stormy night, even though the weather would have been fine at the time of year she died, nice bit of pathetic fallacy from my subconscious there.”
― Evie King, Ashes to Admin: The Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer