Hendrik Groen

“I’m determined to be a big spender in my old age. I want to empty my savings account before I no longer…

— Hendrik Groen

“It was one of those days when you're dragging life along behind you like a bag full of sand.”

— Hendrik Groen

“Good Friday. When I was young we had to observe a moment of silence at three o’clock to think about poor Jesus.…

— Hendrik Groen

“Old plants should not be repotted,” Mrs. Schaap kept bleating at anyone who would listen. The fact that she compares herself to…

— Hendrik Groen

“And after that trip, I'll have to come up with another plan. As long as there are plans, there's life.”

— Hendrik Groen

“I tend to choose the path of least confrontation. My specialty: wanting to please everybody.”

— Hendrik Groen

“Mrs. Aupers is relatively new here. She has taken to reading aloud the newspaper obituaries at coffee every morning.”

— Hendrik Groen

“Mrs. Surmann decided to dry her wet slippers in the microwave. She set the timer for twenty minutes and then went to…

— Hendrik Groen

“So indeed, yesterday I attended Feel Good Fitness. It was my first time. And also my last. When it was over and…

— Hendrik Groen

“He couldn’t get over it: some Chinese man paid €310,000 for a Belgian prize pigeon.”

— Hendrik Groen

“There was a resident who made a habit of staying in bed all day on Friday the thirteenth, just to make sure…

— Hendrik Groen

“My scooter now runs at a top speed of fifteen miles per hour, I think. Cyclists and even some motorcyclists are startled…

— Hendrik Groen

“I’ve been a bit constipated lately, you see, and the Virgin Mary calendar hangs in the bathroom. It has passages from the…

— Hendrik Groen

“In the elderly, that hormone surge can be just as great as in younger people. Says the newspaper. Which might explain why,…

— Hendrik Groen

“Even though I had forgotten to take along an extra incontinence pad, yesterday was a good day.”

— Hendrik Groen

“Mrs. Sitta, seeing the toing and froing of ambulances, asked if bingo would be canceled. “Those of us who are fit shouldn’t…

— Hendrik Groen

“Falls are the leading cause of injury among people sixty-five and older.”

— Hendrik Groen

“I might as well go and sit in the Conversation Lounge downstairs. Complaining is pastime number one down there. I don’t think…

— Hendrik Groen

“This morning Anja handed me a stack of papers. Our very own WikiLeaks!”

— Hendrik Groen

“In Norway they’re watching a TV show that’s just twelve hours of nonstop knitting: “from sheep to sweater.” To promote the notion…

— Hendrik Groen

“Only trivial annoyances still matter. “If Greece goes bankrupt the bingo prizes will probably get smaller,” was Mrs. Schouten’s analysis of the…

— Hendrik Groen

“On parting, a kiss on both cheeks. I felt myself get all hot and bothered. Jesus, I’m eighty-three years old!”

— Hendrik Groen

“Life in here consists of either never or always. One day the food is “never served on time and always too hot,”…

— Hendrik Groen

“The bill before Parliament proposing that citizens have the right to clean diapers has been withdrawn. Just as I’m having to start…

— Hendrik Groen

“Physicians are so good at what they do these days that you hardly ever see anyone who’s healthy” is how he ended…

— Hendrik Groen