Quotes by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

About Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

Vanessa Diffenbaugh is the American author of the novel The Language of Flowers and the nonfiction A Victorian Flower Dictionary.
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I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

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She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to mak...

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smile, and in her wordless expression I saw gratitude, and relief, and trust. I wanted, desperately, not to disappoint her.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

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I was unaccustomed to men in general, having spent my adolescence in all-female group homes with only an occasional male therapist or teacher, and I couldn’t remember having ever been in such proximity to a man who was both young and handsome. Gran...

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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 ...

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Author Bio

  • NameVanessa Diffenbaugh
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist