“To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?” IfsThinkingWayDiesWalksBrainAccountsDebtDuesForestsSettlingDelinquents Author:Katy Lederer
“On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.” YearsFirstsSoulWould BeMotherDiesCasesThirdsPaidDebtDisasterSettlingScoreMisfortunesNew YearJoy Luck Club Book:The Joy Luck Club Source: The Joy Luck Club
“Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."” WayBigsLastsDiesSleepBreathsDebtCurtainsSlow DownDaisiesDepartedDeceasedPegPush UpsHerringMuttonBig SleepPosiesPatch Up Author:Patch Adams
“We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.” StillsBookAgeLawDiesLeftFictionDebtFedsAdmirationReverenceStarvationStatutesSturdyDebtorsFelons Author:Charles Dickens