I will miss it so, ” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat–oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me. Peter S. Beagle
About This Quote

The speaker in the poem “The Passion of Joan of Arc” is a young woman who was burned at the stake for heresy. The author, a man named Marcel Proust, uses a quote from Joan to describe how he felt about this woman. After being burned at the stake, Joan of Arc was rescued from the fire and taken away from her executioners. The quote she used to describe her feelings is from a letter that she wrote to her parents while she was being tortured by her captors.

In it, Joan says that she “will miss it so,” meaning that she will miss being burned at the stake. The use of this quote in this context is ironic, since it emphasizes the horrible feeling that people feel when they lose friends and family members to death or injury.

Source: The Folk Of The Air

Some Similar Quotes
  1. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. - Unknown
  2. My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will... - Charles Bukowski
  3. If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? - Jodi Picoult
  4. Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. - J.k. Rowling
  5. Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. - Mitch Albom
More Quotes By Peter S. Beagle
  1. I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms, " said he." I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye."" If you were a lord, you should be my...
  2. Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come...
  3. Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
  4. Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
  5. When I was alive, I believed – as you do – that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on...
Related Topics