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…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Maybe if I’d never set foot in the chapel, everything would have turned out okay. I would have learned to be satisfied…

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— Diane Chamberlain

“...justice comes in many forms.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“It's not my mind that's sick... It's my soul. ...and there aren't any drugs that are gonna fix that.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“But he had a story. I guess everybody did. People walked around with this thick dark film sticking to them and until…

— 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

“Let’s reframe what you’re going through, Maggie,” he said. “I’d like you to think of it as grief.” “For the people who…

— Diane Chamberlain

“what I have with Laurel is public and shallow. What I have with you is private and deep. Which part of me…

— 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

“You and me," I said,"we both got the same kind of hurt inside us." She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Do you love him? I shook my head. “I love you,” I said, before I could stop myself. He looked away from…

— Diane Chamberlain

“done for the last few days has been completely wrong, even though you did it with the best of intentions. This is…

— 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

“But she could only play herself with Kyle and Lou, and that was the one role for which she could never memorize…

— 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

“even though I couldn’t have him or touch him or talk to him or even look into his eyes. I needed his…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what…

— 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

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

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— 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