Diane Samuels

“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.”

“Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable”

“Why won’t you help me? You have to able to manage on your own.”

“Don't even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.”

“Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother.”

“Eva: I don't want any tea. Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.”

“Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.”

“Do not throw me out. Please.”

“We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.”

“Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!”

“You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them.”

“A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…”

“An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.”

“Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?”

“What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.”

“Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number”

“Please tell me the truth about yourself.”

“I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.”

“I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.”

“How can I pretend that nothing happened?”