Holly Chamberlin > Quotes

“Better to regret actions you have taken than to regret not having had the courage to take them in the first place.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Babyland

“I'm in love with someone, & none of it will go away.The memories bombard me every day.The dreams haunt me every night.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Babyland

“Defending yourself is not the same as offending your enemy. Watch what you say.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Babyland

“We're friends. Remember, we have the right to bore each other every now and then.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Babyland

“But let me quote President Theodore Roosevelt: 'Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Friends

“When you're in love, you can handle almost anything as long as you can spend some time with your loved one.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Babyland

“How many can honestly say that they never fell in love with someone else along the way, someone they didn't pursue because they'd made a vow to stay with their spouse? How many would say they regretted that choice?”
― Holly Chamberlin, Back in the Game

“People make mistakes. Get over it. You thought he was Mr Right but you were wrong. He thought you were his angel but he was wrong. Dwelling on the past will get you nowhere.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Back in the Game

“Just remember: Forever is relative. What one person sees as three years can feel like a lifetime to another.”
― Holly Chamberlin

“True, he doesn't make you cry. Question is, does he make you laugh?”
― Holly Chamberlin, Babyland

“Female curiosity. Women like to know the stories of their friends' lives. Women like to understand”
― Holly Chamberlin, Babyland

“How many married couples who stay married until one of them dies can honestly say that they weren't terribly bored at times?”
― Holly Chamberlin, Back in the Game

“Memories were your most intimate legacy. But if those memories were compromised in some way, would your continued existence be compromised, too?”
― Holly Chamberlin, The Family Beach House

“...in the tiny 'unhistoric acts' of goodness which she performs within her limited circle a ripple of influence has been set in motion which may eventually lap the edge of the world.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Friends

“And then, one day in mid-April, she had happened upon an article in a national newspaper about a growing phenomenon in the United States as well as in parts of Europe. It was called co-living. Adults taking on roommates or housemates after divorce or after having lost a partner or even after years of having lived on their own. Co-living, it had been proved, had both financial and emotional benefits.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Roommates

“If you were waiting around for a miracle to happen, stop waiting and take action. Leave the house and go for a walk. Smile at someone you pass on the street. Chat with the people behind the counters at the local shops. Invite opportunities for connection. Because miracles were really about humans interacting with humans; at least, many of them were. Some miracles were about humans interacting with members of other species.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Roommates

“Maybe I was unhappy for a lot of my marriage but didnt' realize it...She who is busy has no time to realize unhappiness.
Now I have to wonder: why was I so busy in the first place? To fill a void I suspected was there but was afraid to acknowledge?”
― Holly Chamberlin, Back in the Game

“dropping”
― Holly Chamberlin, The Summer Everything Changed

“But it was often family that managed to hurt a person the most deeply.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Roommates

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” Patty added. “My father always said that.” Mary laughed. “What doesn’t kill you leaves you scarred, wary, and weary.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Roommates

“Recently, Sandra had read that nearly one in three adults in the United States lived with a roommate or a parent, and that almost a quarter of people over forty sought out a roommate after being divorced or after the death of a spouse. What was fueling this trend, if it could be called that, toward a no-solitary domestic life? Loneliness alone? Or were economic factors just as important?”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Roommates

“That I had suffered a loss. I thought about the word suffer and about the act or the state of suffering. I thought about enduring. About bearing the burden, about tolerating the pain, about learning to reconcile myself to this new, stark reality.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Babyland

“Sandra nodded. "Loss is universal. Is it just me or does it feel more difficult to bounce back from losses than it was when we were in our thirties or forties? Am I getting more sensitive? Is life just wearing me down? Aren't we supposed to care less about loss as we age? Aren't we supposed to let go of earthly matters and concentrate on the hereafter?"

"Assuming one believes in a hereafter," Mary noted.

"I've always assumed that the older you get, the more you become inured to loss. Your defenses become stronger or your expectations become lower. Either way, you're protected to some extent from the ravages of grief." Amanda shrugged. "At least, I hope that's the way it is. It would be awful to think that we don't learn enough from our earlier years to help us cope in our later years.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Roommates

“It’s all about the umbilical cord. Yeah, sure, it might be physically severed soon after the moment of birth, but let me assure you that it never is nor can it ever be”
― Holly Chamberlin, Tuscan Holiday

“Friends are the threads of gold in the quilt of life. —Anonymous”
― Holly Chamberlin, The Beach Quilt

“Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.”
― Holly Chamberlin, The Beach Quilt

“There was a sort of joke about the four seasons in Maine. They were: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.”
― Holly Chamberlin, The Beach Quilt

“Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I’m with him on that.”
― Holly Chamberlin, The Family Beach House

“Dwelling on the negative could prevent all possibility of joy in the present as well as the future.”
― Holly Chamberlin, Summer Roommates

“certainly”
― Holly Chamberlin, The Summer Everything Changed