Dianne Salerni > Dianne's Quotes

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“Silas didn't plan on going to the grave anytime soon, and he wasn't going to be a pauper when he did.”
― Dianne Salerni, The Caged Graves

“Instead she was wet, bedraggled, and a stranger here.”
― Dianne Salerni, The Caged Graves

“It was a point in his favor, and heaven knew he needed one.”
― Dianne Salerni, The Caged Graves

“Sometimes the dead don't stay where you put them.”
― Dianne Salerni, The Caged Graves

“Truth trumped lies.”
― Dianne Salerni, The Caged Graves

“I thought love was — big and loud and sudden, like a thunderbolt. I didn't know it was deep and quiet and grew upon a woman slowly, until one day she realizes it's the very breath and smiles and tears of her life.”
― Dianne Salerni, The Caged Graves

“I am here to help her learn," Tansy said, "not to keep her from it.”
― Richard Peck, The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts

“We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.”
― Richard Peck, The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts