The Silent Sister Quotes

“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it's unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your view of the world will ever make sense.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Absolutely,” she said. “Artists use them”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“...justice comes in many forms.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Everybody has a scar...”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“It's not my mind that's sick... It's my soul. ...and there aren't any drugs that are gonna fix that.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“I don’t like religion, to be honest. Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“went wrong with Celia, too, she”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Lisa never went away to study the violin,” she said. “She was living with me in Asheville, waiting to have her baby.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“She’s wearing the necklace I gave her,” she said. I’d been about to toss another stack of papers into the trash bag, but lowered my hand to the floor. “What did you say?” I asked. “This necklace.” Jeannie tapped the picture with her fingertip. “I gave it to her. It’s jade. Lisa always wore it, and that touched me so much. It had Chinese symbols carved on the front and back. They meant ‘long life’ and ‘joy,’ or something like that.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“I believe something set everything in motion. That’s as close as I come to God, I think. I don’t like religion, to be honest. Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“He’d been so easy to talk to and I’d always felt his unconditional love. It was a terrible feeling to know that there wasn’t a soul in the world now who loved me that deeply.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“another”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can’t be open with them about who you truly are, you are still alone.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“to their cars in the driveway. I smiled, watching”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“out”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Facing her fear turned out to be the only hard part.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Warren Hirsh graciously answered my endless questions. Thank you to my brother,”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“two more women sat, ready to judge her. She thought of all the times she’d imagined her audition for Juilliard. The people in front of her were not Juilliard professors, but”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“I had the feeling if I hadn’t been there,”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister