Top 60 Diane Chamberlain Quotes
#1. It's hard to move on if you don't forgive," he said. "It's like trying to dance with a lead weight on your shoulders. The anger can weigh you down forever.
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#3. Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.
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#4. Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant,
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#5. When you see a picture of the ocean, it's cut off at the edges. You know it goes on and on to the right and on and on to the left, but you never really know how it feels to see that until you actually do see it.
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#6. Working two part-time jobs and doing round-the-clock research was a snap compared to full-time motherhood, she said.
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#7. They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person.
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#8. But somethings are just too important to let fear stand in the way.
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#9. There are too many silly rules in our lives," she said, "and our lives are far too short to pay attention to them.
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#10. Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.
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#11. Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches!
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#12. You and me," I said,"we both got the same kind of hurt inside us."
She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.
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#13. People ... ladies, I mean ... they dye their hair sometimes," I explained to him. "So one day they have red hair and another day they have brown hair. It doesn't matter," I said. "They're still the same lady.
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#16. Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.
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#17. When it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.
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#18. Somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.
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#19. Two decades had passed, yet she still saw her parents' bloodied bodies in every shooting victim she treated.
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#20. She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface
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#21. Sometimes, though, you could do the right thing and still feel sick with doubt.
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#22. I think the important thing about making a decision is just to make it. Otherwise you can go nuts thinking about the pros and cons.
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#23. More often than not, family stories turn out to be etched in sand rather than granite. Even the parts we think are true - even the parts about ourselves - crumble
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#24. I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul
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#29. There was something real breakable about Mary Ella and I was always afraid if I touched her in the wrong spot, she'd crack.
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#30. Ben sat numbly on the sofa at first, then walked into the kitchen
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#32. If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she's done something abominable, do you stop loving her?
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#33. The hostility and venomous response the topic of sexual trauma and rape in the military brings up, especially with men from my Era, is revealing. This opposition speaks to their guilt and toward the truth that stays hidden.
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#35. You're supposed to help people, even if it's hard to do. Especially if it's hard to do.
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#37. Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it's unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your view of the world will ever make sense.
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#38. Warren Hirsh graciously answered my endless questions. Thank you to my brother,
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#39. Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it's worth it.
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#40. My life sucked, and it would catch up to me, and I'd just crack.
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#41. You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.
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#42. Five GOP representative candidates this session have shocked me to my soul at how blatant they have trivialized rape. My prayers were answered in their defeat!
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#43. No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.
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#45. It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons. - Travis from The Good Father
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#46. The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater.
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#47. Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.
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#50. Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.
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#51. Just know, my darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say "I love you" with nothing else attached to those words. No criticism. No advice. No requests. Just to say I love you.
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#52. Feelings are never right or wrong," she said after a moment. "They just are.
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#53. You could block things from your mind for years at a time. You could make them go away because you know that if you let them in, the pain could nearly kill you.
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#54. And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.
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#56. Two more women sat, ready to judge her. She thought of all the times she'd imagined her audition for Juilliard. The people in front of her were not Juilliard professors, but
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#57. Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The Stories We Tell is filled with the warmth, heart and compassion that have become the trademark of her novels.
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#58. Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?"
Alec: " ... God, I think ...
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#60. The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.
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