Quotes from Diane Chamberlain

master. "There's the Shenandoah," Janine said, after they'd been flying about half an hour.

sister, you know that?" he asked. "She could beat me

Well, a marriage can look healthy on the outside and be loaded with problems inside.

right. It's hopeless

I couldn't believe Nonnie was telling me to go. Pushing me to go. And as I threw my underwear and one of Nonnie's old dresses and my transistor radio into the bag, I wondered if they was in on it together, all three of them. Nurse Ann and Mrs. Forrester and Nonnie. But I had to pick one person to trust, and I guessed that was going to have to be the lady who took me to the beach and told Mary Ella the truth and cared enough to ask me questions about my daddy.

felt the depth of my deception. What had happened to my self-respect? My integrity?

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.

Dylan Geer! Why would you…oh, you must

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.

was dependent on Sheila

Now I knew that an emotional affair was even more dangerous. It created a need to share every thought and feeling with another person. It seduced you into being entirely vulnerable while still feeling entirely safe.

I guess when the world's crumbling around you the only way to survive is to comfort yourself," he said.

he needed Daria's permission

We can't always have what we want in life. I should know that by now.

what I have with Laurel is public and shallow. What I have with you is private and deep. Which part of me would you rather have?

Violence is the weapon of the weak. - Ralph Abernathy

Sometimes there's so much to say that you don't know where to begin.

strides, Shelly grabbed the ball

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.