“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“You and me," I said,"we both got the same kind of hurt inside us."
She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“All the love in the world doesn't put food on the table.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“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.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“There was something real breakable about Mary Ella and I was always afraid if I touched her in the wrong spot, she'd crack.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“Feelings are never right or wrong,” she said after a moment. “They just are.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“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.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“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.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“There are too many silly rules in our lives,” she said, “and our lives are far too short to pay attention to them.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you ,' she said. 'Only you can figure out if it's worth it.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“Sometimes, though, you could do the right thing and still feel sick with doubt.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“Devil, worked with Henry Allen and the day laborers, and it”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you,” she said. “Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“saw the accident and she saw his spirit fly”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“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.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“around the open windows, but it was too”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“barely test in the normal range, but that woman could run this farm. She graduated from the colored high school in Ridley, which is no small feat given the environment she grew up in.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
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“But you don't belong here! You're dead!" I sobbed against his chest.
"Zo, babe, this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you.”
― P.C. Cast, quote from Tempted
“The truth is, Colonel, that there's no divine spark, bless you. There's many a man alive no more value than a dead dog. Believe me, when you've seen them hang each other...Equality? Christ in Heaven. What I'm fighting for is the right to prove I'm a better man than many. Where have you seen this divine spark in operation, Colonel? Where have you noted this magnificent equality? The Great White Joker in the Sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. no two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf nor a tree. There's many a man worse than me, and some better, but I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters is justice. 'Tis why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved. I'm Kilrain, and I God damn all gentlemen. I don't know who me father was and I don't give a damn. There's only one aristocracy, and that's right here - " he tapped his white skull with a thick finger - "and YOU, Colonel laddie, are a member of it and don't even know it. You are damned good at everything I've seen you do, a lovely soldier, an honest man, and you got a good heart on you too, which is rare in clever men. Strange thing. I'm not a clever man meself, but I know it when I run across it. The strange and marvelous thing about you, Colonel darlin', is that you believe in mankind, even preachers, whereas when you've got my great experience of the world you will have learned that good men are rare, much rarer than you think.”
― Michael Shaara, quote from The Killer Angels
“Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
3 He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
4 He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
5 He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”
― Sun Tzu, quote from The Art of War
“And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Silver Chair
“Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able,—to dress and entertain, and order things.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, quote from The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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