The Undertaker's Wife Quotes

“Death is, perhaps, the only certainty in life that still manages to catch us off guard. And”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

“People will stare. Make it worth their while.”), but”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

“I was sure that, from his perch in the clouds, Johnnie was drinking a Pepsi, watching me — and beaming. I can hear him now: “See, Dee? You’re never gonna see a hearse pulling a U-Haul. You really can’t take it with you.”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

“Mother routinely opined when dishing up nuptial advice, “You can fall in love with a rich man as easily as you can a poor one.”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

“salvation doesn’t depend on man’s good works but on the good work that Jesus has done on our behalf.”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

“By contrast, think about how much time we take planning for other stuff. We talk to people, check out things on Google, and weigh our options on everything from the type of wedding cake we want to which career looks most promising. We analyze our health benefits, test-drive cars, and peek in the crawl spaces of our houses. When children come along, we buy books about what to name them, how to toilet train them, and what we should do when they announce that they don’t need us anymore and they’re leaving home to follow a rock-’n’-roll band. And don’t get me started on pets! I spent more time researching what type of dog to get Johnnie for Christmas than I ever spent thinking about his casket — despite walking past it almost every single day (it was the one he would never let us sell, since it had a ding in the mahogany paneling).”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

“I learned that, if I went to the trouble of making the bed right away, I would be less tempted to crawl back into it and hide from the world once I got the girls off to school.)”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

“Crying is better than laughing,” it tells us in Ecclesiastes 7:3. “It blotches the face but it scours the heart.”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places

“Riddick, it’s that we’re all basically the same. White or black, we’re all going to end up in the same place (well, one of two places), but most of us don’t like to think about death. And even fewer of us take the time to plan for it. Which is kind of funny when you consider the odds of it happening. By contrast, think about how much time we take planning for other stuff. We talk to people, check out things on Google, and weigh our options on everything from the type of wedding cake we want to which career looks most promising. We analyze our health benefits, test-drive cars, and peek in the crawl spaces of our houses. When children come along, we buy books about what to name them, how to toilet train them, and what we should do when they announce that they don’t need us anymore and they’re leaving home to follow a rock-’n’-roll band.”
― Dee Oliver, The Undertaker's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Laughter in the Unlikeliest of Places