Diane Samuels Quotes

Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake..

Please tell me the truth about yourself.

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

Know your number. If you don’t know it you might forget who you are.

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

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

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

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

I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?

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

Do not throw me out. Please.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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