Quotes from Diane Chamberlain

She was many things, but a liar was not one of them.

Once this girl gets to like you, she'll tease the daylights outta you.

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

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.

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.

Studying the stars makes you come to grips with your insignificance pretty quickly.

There was something about the never-ending vastness of the sea and sky that usually gave me comfort, reminding me that in the enormity of the universe, my problems, no matter how painful, were very, very small.

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.

Absolutely," she said. "Artists use them

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

You're a jumper. He's a thinker.

Everybody has a scar...

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.

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.

It was so unlike her not to be able to sleep. No matter what was going on, she was usually out the second her head hit the pillow.

Do you love him? I shook my head. "I love you," I said, before I could stop myself. He looked away from me. "A little too late for that, isn't it," he said, and I winced, wishing I'd kept my feelings to myself.

A state that has denied opportunity for quality education for Negroes has no right to demand literacy as a prerequisite for voting

saw the accident and she saw his spirit fly

Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what they did on Sunday.

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.

Now Sam and Noelle were dead and I was about to lost my grandpa, and I knew I would never have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

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

Devil, worked with Henry Allen and the day laborers, and it

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