Diane Chamberlain Quotes & Sayings

To their cars in the driveway. I smiled, watching — Diane Chamberlain

Carry the confidence. — Diane Chamberlain

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! — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

Feelings are never right or wrong," she said after a moment. "They just are. — Diane Chamberlain

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 — Diane Chamberlain

around the open windows, but it was too — Diane Chamberlain

her mouthing the words, 'That's my Daddy.'" Ben — Diane Chamberlain

The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up. — Diane Chamberlain

My life sucked, and it would catch up to me, and I'd just crack. — Diane Chamberlain

Justice Denied
Thousands of women, probably more
I cannot reach them behind justice doors
Many stay silent, barred just like me.
Haunted by demons, faces unseen.
Still by the hundreds, they continue to serve
Duty and country, active and reserve.
Thankless, forgotten through America's wars
Scarred like their brethren, treated as foes.
Volunteered to go to the shores.
Died like the others, shamed to the core.
Where is the dignity, long since denied?
Lost in the White House of Justice Denied
Women in service since beginning of time
Often they're treated like victims in crime.
Where is their voice, silence throughout the years?
It's dead in the Senate and House, with their tears! — Diane Chamberlain

When it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in. — Diane Chamberlain

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 — Diane Chamberlain

right. It's hopeless, — Diane Chamberlain

Sister, you know that?" he asked. "She could beat me — Diane Chamberlain

Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant, — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

But somethings are just too important to let fear stand in the way. — Diane Chamberlain

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! — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

I had the feeling if I hadn't been there, — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history has shown "the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of almost every object worthy of an intelligent, rational mind."45 What law has the right to entrust the interest of myself and my children into the hands of such an evil bunch of men? I did not occupy my rightful place in 1976.
45. (paraphrased from Gurko, Miriram, The Ladies of Seneca Falls; the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement, 1974. — Diane Chamberlain

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them. — Diane Chamberlain

went wrong with Celia, too, she — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

Seeing his face light up when I told him. He was so happy — Diane Chamberlain

I said I was afraid and she told me to think about a time I felt brave and take that feeling into the situation with me. It worked. It helped."
Corinne leaned away from the Plexiglas, horrified.
"Of course, since that time, I've learned much more about the technique," her mother said. "I've learned to make it much more elegant, but the basics are still the same. Take that old calm, confident feeling with you into the new situation. I used it or a variant of it with clients all the time." She knit her eyebrows, looking hard at Corinne. "I used it for evil during the kidnapping," she said. "Now you can use it for good. — Diane Chamberlain

All the love in the world doesn't put food on the table. — Diane Chamberlain

Sometimes, though, you could do the right thing and still feel sick with doubt. — Diane Chamberlain

The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater. — Diane Chamberlain

seen that quick alteration of her features — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface — Diane Chamberlain

Suddenly I remembered something Daddy told me once when I was angry at my mother. "You know how Mom arranges orange slices on a plate for your soccer team and has activities planned for your birthday parties two months in advance?" he'd asked me. "That's the way she shows her love, Gracie." Why was I thinking about that now? I could hear his voice so clearly, like he was talking to me from the backseat of the car. That's the way she shows her love, Gracie. — Diane Chamberlain

...justice comes in many forms. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

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? — Diane Chamberlain

You're supposed to help people, even if it's hard to do. Especially if it's hard to do. — Diane Chamberlain

Facing her fear turned out to be the only hard part. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

Warren Hirsh graciously answered my endless questions. Thank you to my brother, — Diane Chamberlain

And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again. — Diane Chamberlain

There was something real breakable about Mary Ella and I was always afraid if I touched her in the wrong spot, she'd crack. — Diane Chamberlain

Two flights of steps bordered either side of the Hill from Hell. I didn't know who constructed them or when, but it was sometime before I was born. Maybe even before Daddy was born. In one stretch, the steps were made of large semiflat stones. In another, wood. In a third, slate. All of them were in terrible disrepair, but it was still easier to climb them than to try to walk up the dirt road itself, especially since Stacy and I were weighed down with our backpacks, slices of pie in Tupperware containers, bottles of Pepsi, and a bunch of cassette tapes. We stopped halfway up to catch our breath. I really didn't need to, but I could tell Stacy was not used to trudging up hills. — Diane Chamberlain

He looked through the bars thoughtfully, then back at me. "I'll never forget how she went to you after Lois's funeral that day," he said. "She's a very intuitive little girl, and that moment told me something about you."
"It did?" I asked.
He nodded. "It told me you're someone worth fighting for," he said. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it's worth it. — Diane Chamberlain

Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?"
Alec: " ... God, I think ... — Diane Chamberlain

Ben sat numbly on the sofa at first, then walked into the kitchen — Diane Chamberlain

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 — Diane Chamberlain

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 — Diane Chamberlain

It seemed like all she did these days was wait. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

Working two part-time jobs and doing round-the-clock research was a snap compared to full-time motherhood, she said. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

There are too many silly rules in our lives," she said, "and our lives are far too short to pay attention to them. — Diane Chamberlain

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. — Diane Chamberlain

Two decades had passed, yet she still saw her parents' bloodied bodies in every shooting victim she treated. — Diane Chamberlain

saw the accident and she saw his spirit fly — Diane Chamberlain