Diane Chamberlain · 522 pages
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“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“Just know, my darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say "I love you" with nothing else attached to those words. No criticism. No advice. No requests. Just to say I love you.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“Every single person who comes into your life, from a doctor to a trash collector, can teach you something if you let them.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“I said I was afraid and she told me to think about a time I felt brave and take that feeling into the situation with me. It worked. It helped.”
Corinne leaned away from the Plexiglas, horrified.
“Of course, since that time, I’ve learned much more about the technique,” her mother said. “I’ve learned to make it much more elegant, but the basics are still the same. Take that old calm, confident feeling with you into the new situation. I used it or a variant of it with clients all the time.” She knit her eyebrows, looking hard at Corinne. “I used it for evil during the kidnapping,” she said. “Now you can use it for good.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“But somethings are just too important to let fear stand in the way.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“I think the important thing about making a decision is just to make it. Otherwise you can go nuts thinking about the pros and cons.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“So, when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“done for the last few days has been completely wrong, even though you did it with the best of intentions. This is the risk you agreed to take. There are always consequences.” “Can I leave the baby with you?” she asked.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
“seen that quick alteration of her features”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
Diane Chamberlain
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“But i do love her more. She's amazing. Innocent, yes, but so damn passionate. It's like we're one person and we instinctively know what the other needs. The love she has for me seeps right into my skin whenever she touches me, Aaron. It's that intense. Being with her was like nothing i've ever experienced in my life.”
― Kahlen Aymes, quote from The Future of Our Past
“They will love me for that which destroys me
the sword in my dreams
the dust of my thoughts
the sickness that breeds in the folds of my mind”
― Sarah Kane, quote from 4.48 Psychosis
“Панк казался нам свежим и ярким явлением, могучим культом. Панк не был явлением политическим. Хотя, возможно, в некотором роде он все же был связан с политикой. Однако панк был замечателен тем, что в нем не было политической программы. Сутью панка была настоящая свобода, свобода личности. Делать что угодно, лишь бы задеть взрослых. Просто быть таким отвратительным, каким сможешь. Это казалось восхитительным, радостно возбуждающим. Быть такими, какими мы были на самом деле. Знаете что? Я просто обожал это.”
― Legs McNeil, quote from Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
“A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.”
― Steve Martin, quote from Shopgirl
“They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers (listen businessmen collegepresidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons all right you have won you will kill the brave men our friends tonight (author's punctuation)”
― John Dos Passos, quote from The Big Money
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