79 Quotes by Diane Chamberlain

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

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.

I don’t like religion, to be honest. Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.

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 died?” “No. For yourself. For the life you thought you had before the fire. Before Ben.

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.

But he had a story. I guess everybody did. People walked around with this thick dark film sticking to them and until you scratched it, you had no idea.

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

It seemed like all she did these days was wait.

It’s amazing what you’ll do for your child, isn’t it?