Echo's Bones Quotes

“The dead die hard, trespassers on the beyond, they must take the place as they find it, the shafts and manholes back into the muck, till such time as the lord of the manor incurs through his long acquiescence a duty of care in respect of them. They are free among the dead by all means, then their troubles are over, their natural troubles. But the debt of nature, that scandalous post-obit on one’s own estate, can no more be discharged by kicking the bucket than descent can be made into the same stream twice. This is a true saying.”
― Samuel Beckett, Echo's Bones

“He closed his eyes, intending to have a vision, but felt so marooned when he did so that he opened them again quick.”
― Samuel Beckett, Echo's Bones