Necessary Lies Quotes

“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.”
― Diane Chamberlain, 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, Necessary Lies

“Feelings are never right or wrong,” she said after a moment. “They just are.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“All the love in the world doesn't put food on the table.”
― Diane Chamberlain, 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, 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, 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, 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, Necessary Lies

“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, Necessary Lies

“Sometimes, though, you could do the right thing and still feel sick with doubt.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“saw the accident and she saw his spirit fly”
― Diane Chamberlain, 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, Necessary Lies

“I used to wish I look like her, awful pretty. But if that prettiness comes with being stupid, I don’t want it.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“One thing I was absolutely sure of was his love. Love made any problem solvable.”
― Diane Chamberlain, 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, Necessary Lies

“around the open windows, but it was too”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“Devil, worked with Henry Allen and the day laborers, and it”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you ,' she said. 'Only you can figure out if it's worth it.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“You’re supposed to help people, even if it’s hard to do. Especially if it’s hard to do.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“She’s smart and full of business,” she said, “and she sure knows how to get things done. You, though.” She nodded. “You a real human being.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“I haven’t prescribed the birth control pill yet and I won’t be starting today without getting approval from the man of the house.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“harried”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“I bristled, but tried not to show it. The last thing I wanted today was an argument with Charlotte. She was still furious with me for telling Mary Ella the truth about her surgery—which I admitted to her before Ann Laing had a chance to tell her—and she was never going to let me forget about the beach trip, either. “I’m going to go over to the Harts’ house this week to see how they’re doing,” I said”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“I couldn’t believe Nonnie was telling me to go. Pushing me to go. And as I threw my underwear and one of Nonnie’s old dresses and my transistor radio into the bag, I wondered if they was in on it together, all three of them. Nurse Ann and Mrs. Forrester and Nonnie. But I had to pick one person to trust, and I guessed that was going to have to be the lady who took me to the beach and told Mary Ella the truth and cared enough to ask me questions about my daddy.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“We got the message that day. We could be friends at home. But out in the world, we didn’t know each other.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies

“You don’t know nothing, that’s what I figured out. You don’t know nothing, but you act like god anyway.”
― Diane Chamberlain, 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, Necessary Lies

“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you,” she said. “Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies