It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!
I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.
I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!
He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.
There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.
My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
