“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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“I hate Breeds,” she muttered. “Do you know that? You and your sharp, damned noses. Just because I want to doesn’t mean I should. Hell, I want cheesecake but I know better. It goes right to my hips. Does that mean I have to eat it anyway?”
He stared back at her in disbelief. “You’re comparing me to cheesecake?” Offended male fury and outrage glittered in his eyes.
She huffed, “Well, the same principle applies.”
― Lora Leigh, quote from Mercury's War
“A successful novel should erase the boundary line between writer and reader, so they can unite. When that happens, the novel becomes a part of life—the main course, not the dessert. A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments,”
― William Golding, quote from The Inheritors
“The Midnight Dance of the Universal Desk Sergeant, a performance that is somehow the same whether the precinct house is in Boston or Biloxi. Was there ever a desk sergeant who didn’t peer out over reading glasses? Was there ever a desk man who wanted to be bothered with police work at three in the morning? Was any station house desk ever manned by anything but aging civil servants, six months from their pensions, whose every movement seemed slower than death itself?”
― David Simon, quote from Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
“There is a crucially important difference about playing the game of investing compared to virtually any other activity. Most of us have no chance of being as good as the average in any pursuit where others practice and hone skills for many, many hours. But we can be as good as the average investor in the stock market with no practice at all.
Jeremy Siegel, Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Stocks for the Long Run”
― quote from The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
“One-Eye scowled at Goblin. “Keep it up, Barf Bag. You’ll be grocery shopping with the turtles.” What the hell did that mean? Some kind of obscure shop talk? But Goblin was as croggled as the rest of us. Grinning, One-Eye resumed gabbling with his relatives.”
― Glen Cook, quote from The Books of the South
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