Diane Chamberlain · 417 pages
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“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Midwife's Confession
“If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she’s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Midwife's Confession
“Suddenly I remembered something Daddy told me once when I was angry at my mother. “You know how Mom arranges orange slices on a plate for your soccer team and has activities planned for your birthday parties two months in advance?” he’d asked me. “That’s the way she shows her love, Gracie.” Why was I thinking about that now? I could hear his voice so clearly, like he was talking to me from the backseat of the car. That’s the way she shows her love, Gracie.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Midwife's Confession
“The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Midwife's Confession
“And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Midwife's Confession
“Now Sam and Noelle were dead and I was about to lost my grandpa, and I knew I would never have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Midwife's Confession
“Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant,”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Midwife's Confession
Diane Chamberlain
Born place: The United States
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