Grave Digger Quotes

“She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“Do I sing? Oh, I’m indifferent enough, sir, for that; but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade, sir.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale