Diane Chamberlain

“Everybody has a scar...”

— Diane Chamberlain

“...justice comes in many forms.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“Carry the confidence.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“My life sucked, and it would catch up to me, and I'd just crack.”

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

“Sometimes there’s so much to say that you don’t know where to begin.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“Sleep was not a friend these days. It was just the waiting period between nightmares.”

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

“You're supposed to help people, even if it's hard to do. Especially if it's hard to do.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“He was mercurial—self-conscious one minute, brazen the next.”

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— 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…

— Diane Chamberlain

“You’re trying to paint things as either black or white,” he said. “As either good or evil. It’s never that neat.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“It was me—the weak-willed, easily seduced, insecure girl I’d become. I was the obstacle I’d be carrying around with me for the…

— Diane Chamberlain

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Now Sam and Noelle were dead and I was about to lost my grandpa, and I knew I would never have that…

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

“Every single person who comes into your life, from a doctor to a trash collector, can teach you something if you let…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you ,' she said. 'Only you can figure out if it's worth it.”

— Diane Chamberlain

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can…

— 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…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Now I knew that an emotional affair was even more dangerous. It created a need to share every thought and feeling with…

— Diane Chamberlain

“I think people put on a show that they’re good,” I said. “Maybe they even start to, like, believe it themselves. But…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Just know, my darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say "I…

— Diane Chamberlain

“What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not…

— 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…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Suddenly I remembered something Daddy told me once when I was angry at my mother. “You know how Mom arranges orange slices…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Justice Denied Thousands of women, probably more I cannot reach them behind justice doors Many stay silent, barred just like me. Haunted…

— Diane Chamberlain

“In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20…

— Diane Chamberlain

“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Conviction rates in the military are pathetic, with most offenders going free AND THERE IS NO RECOURSE FOR APPEAL! The military believes…

— Diane Chamberlain

“This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now…

— Diane Chamberlain

“I said I was afraid and she told me to think about a time I felt brave and take that feeling into…

— Diane Chamberlain

“FORGET FERES DOCTRINE And the military has immunity! Yes! The feres doctrine! It states “the Government is not liable under the Federal…

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

“All the love in the world doesn't put food on the table.”

— Diane Chamberlain