Odette's Words
 
From Odette's Journal (dated 10 November 2005)

"Perhaps it should never be written in, but what is the fun in that?
Perhaps you should never stick your neck out. But then you'll never get the full view.
Perhaps we should doubt all humans, but then we would hate too many.
Perhaps you can find out too much and then people stop understanding, or stop trying to understand.
Perhaps that isn’t the point. Or this isn't.
Perhaps things just are. And you just live.
And you try to be happy. And then you die."

Some excerpts from Odette's emails (selected by Selene)

“Methinks maybe you should all move to Canberra – it’s totally the new hip place. It’s just no one really knows it yet”

“If we were all different planets in an enormous universe…Then some of you are Jupiter, even though you may not have a red spot, Jupiter has cool stripes and you are cool…Some of you are Mercury because you are closest to the sun and therefore must shine the most…Some of you (you know who you are) are Uranus because someone has to be and you are funny…And I think I should be Venus. Because I get to choose and I don’t want to be Earth. And women are from Venus.”

“I say we buy a block of land by the sea…On the block of land we build an egg house.
We can camp on the land and discuss house plans. I will read the insurance policy.
And bead us some cool lamp shades”

“Ramona you must write a book, and then sign my name in the front. Hell actually devote the whole book to me, because I told you to write it!”

“Odette is well these days, she lives a new stress free life all thanks to the divine jalna yogurt which she is trying to eat every morning instead of bread.”

“I’m going to go and play soccer outside now, happy Spring and happy Fall my lovely angels of loveliness,

“See some of you soon, and the rest of you in my dreams.”