"MAURYA: (raising her head and speaking as if she did not see the people around her) They're all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me.... I'll have no call now to be up crying and praying when the wind breaks from the south, and you can hear the surf is in the east, and the surf is in the west, making a great stir with the two noises, and they hitting one on the other. I'll have no call now to be going down and getting Holy Water in the dark nights after Samhain, and I won't care what way the sea is when the other women will be keening. (To NORA) Give me the Holy Water, Nora; there's a small sup still on the dresser."
This passage is from "Riders to the Sea" by John Millington Synge. Maurya is a mother of three and this play is about accepting death. As a mother, Maurya does a very good job of that and I chose this passage to post because it displays her satisfaction and acceptance with the death of her son.
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