Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

“I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“We replanted. The loss was substantial, but it was overshadowed completely by losing you.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“Hyacinth. Please forgive me.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“I still look up sometimes when I cross the front of the house, expecting to see her.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“As she looked me up and down, I felt like a daughter returning from summer camp to a mother who had worried unnecessarily. Except instead of summer camp it had been my entire adolescence, emancipation, homelessness, and single parenthood, and I couldn't rightly say that Elizabeth's worry had been unwarranted”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“Meredith Combs, the social worker responsible for selecting the stream of adoptive families that gave me back, wanted to talk to me about blame.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“Lui la abbracciò stretta, e quando lei cominciò a tremare, per il freddo o il pianto o entrambi, la avvolse nella coperta e la strinse a sè ancora di più. Per la prima volta, rimpianse profondamente la sua decisione, si pentì di averla lasciata ad affrontare il liceo da sola, mentre avrebbe potuto essere al suo fianco. Non l'aveva mai considerata debole perché non lo era, ma era vulnerabile e lui l'aveva abbandonata.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh