Deeper Than the Dead Quotes

“Secrets rarely stay hidden forever.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Coming back forced her to acknowledge what she wanted to pretend away. Loss and pain and terrible secrets.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“A reminder that sometimes things and people need a reason to stay. A little something to hold them in place.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Anytime your emotions were out of control, it was better to say nothing at all. A single misspoken or slipped word could cause irreparable damage.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“For the first time in my life, I’m glad my mother is dead so she doesn’t have to know what the women she trusted are doing to her daughter.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“I know we don’t see each other often enough, and we don’t even call enough, but I couldn’t do this life thing without you. Just knowing you’re wherever you are makes me okay.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“That is the most asinine, childish statement I have ever heard.” She shook her head. How had she forgotten what it was like spending hours cooped up alone with her sister?”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“The ones who did bad things never understood why friends and family didn’t help them more often. It was difficult—no, impossible—to help a person who hid things from you and/or lied to you.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Leaving was the one good, selfless thing he did in those days. Leaving gave Vera the opportunity to achieve all the things she had spoken about so enthusiastically. She had big dreams, and he hadn’t wanted to stand in her way.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Vera cringed. “Daddy, I need you to think carefully before you speak. You loved Sheree.” He nodded. “I did, but I also knew what she was. I finally had enough, and I told her to leave.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“But her mama would always smile and say Bent was a good man, he just needed someone to show him how to be as good as he really was.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“She really had been naive. Even now she couldn’t help wondering if he remembered those days and weeks as graphically as she did. She rolled her eyes. Idiot.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Whatever. She and this man were practically strangers. There was absolutely no reason for her to be concerned as to what he thought of her. At least, not beyond any connection to the human remains found in that damned cave. Whatever brief connection they had shared a lifetime ago had vanished the moment he took off on her.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“In some ways, Vera supposed Sheree hadn’t understood how to be a better person. All she’d ever known was taking care of herself and avoiding the disappointment, shame, and abandonment of her heartless parents.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“This had not been home for a very long time, yet somehow, it always would be. Funny how life was like that. You spent years dreaming of escaping a place, and no matter how far and fast you ran, you could never get completely away. It was part of you. Entrenched on a cellular level.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“It wasn’t that she didn’t love her father—she did. It was just that in light of what happened after her mother’s death, Vera had been forced to adjust her thinking toward him. It was the only way to pretend life was even remotely normal.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Luna. A frown tugged Vera’s eyebrows together. The possible reasons for a sudden call during work hours from her half sister—not that Vera had ever seen her as anything other than a full sister in every sense of the word—set her nerves on edge. This couldn’t be good.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Funny how life was like that. You spent years dreaming of escaping a place, and no matter how far and fast you ran, you could never get completely away. It was part of you.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“you know the old saying. The higher the hair, the closer to Jesus.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“It isn’t always about being blind or distracted. It’s about not wanting to believe what we see.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“Sheree’s head bumped along with a hollow thump-thump like a watermelon rolling down an uneven path.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“The reality went to show that even good people would do almost anything to protect their secrets.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“You killed him?” “He was a really bad guy, Vee. I wouldn’t have—” “Holy shit! What’re you now? Dexter?”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“I hit him in the head with a cast-iron skillet.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead

“I am telling you unequivocally that he did not hurt that woman. He would have done anything to keep her happy, but that was an impossible task for any mere mortal.”
― Debra Webb, Deeper Than the Dead