The Undertaker's Assistant Quotes

“She’d always found children loud and squirmy and, often as not, smelly. But at least they spoke straight. They laughed when they were happy and cried when they were in pain. You never had to second-guess their motives or scrutinize their expressions.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“Perchance you disremember for a reason. Perchance you ought let that which is dead stay dead.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“No matter how grandly or wretchedly you lived, death, in his time, would find you.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“I fought for the preservation of the Union, Miss Jones. Nothing more, nothing less.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“She’d thought Mrs. Kinyon did it to punish her, thought the woman believed her suited for naught but domestic drudgery on account of her race and sex. Perhaps instead she’d been trying to help, to teach Effie something truly useful.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“That every drop of blood drawn with the lash be paid by another drawn with the sword.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“Schopenhauer believed loss of memory stemmed from the inability of one’s intellect to assimilate an event due to opposition from the will.” She thought it best not to add he believed this the root of madness.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“Love! What greater culprit was there in the abandonment of reason?”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“Until that moment, she’d not realized the crushing weight hope had brought to bear on”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“The men who’d dreamed up these floats had never looked upon the insides of a man. Never seen the heart, lungs, spleen, liver all laid out in the same grand order regardless of race or sex.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“To want a seat at the theater, soda shop, or on the streetcar?”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“Was it so radical to want to walk down the street unmolested? To want to send your children to the same good schools white children attended?”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“No one to mourn you in death meant no one to hurt you in life.”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

“door,”
― Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant