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Top 20 Diane Cook Quotes (2025 Update)

Diane Cook Quote: “Agnes did not care about this conversation. Who cared about why or how? Who cared about would or wouldn’t? She never understood why the adults were always discussing these words. Should and shouldn’t. Can and can’t. “Is and do,” she muttered to herself. That’s all that mattered. Is and do. Being and doing. Right now, and a little time from now.”

1. “Agnes did not care about this conversation. Who cared about why or how? Who cared about would or wouldn’t? She never understood why the adults were always discussing these words. Should and shouldn’t. Can and can’t. “Is and do,” she muttered to herself. That’s all that mattered. Is and do. Being and doing. Right now, and a little time from now.”

Diane Cook Quote: “She hated her mother’s fierce love. Because fierce love never lasted. Fierce love now meant that later, there would be no love, or at least that’s what it would feel like. Agnes wanted a mild mother, one who seemed to love her exactly the same every day. She thought, Mild mothers don’t run away.”

2. “She hated her mother’s fierce love. Because fierce love never lasted. Fierce love now meant that later, there would be no love, or at least that’s what it would feel like. Agnes wanted a mild mother, one who seemed to love her exactly the same every day. She thought, Mild mothers don’t run away.”

Diane Cook Quote: “Agnes always felt so much younger in her mother’s arms.”

3. “Agnes always felt so much younger in her mother’s arms.”

Diane Cook Quote: “It’s better to miss something you can’t have than think there’s nothing worth missing.”

4. “It’s better to miss something you can’t have than think there’s nothing worth missing.”

Diane Cook Quote: “I’ll tell her this story and the others with all their complications and confusions because those complications and confusions are what make them true. It feels at times like the only instinct left in me. It’s the only way I know to raise a daughter. It’s how my mother raised me.”

5. “I’ll tell her this story and the others with all their complications and confusions because those complications and confusions are what make them true. It feels at times like the only instinct left in me. It’s the only way I know to raise a daughter. It’s how my mother raised me.”

Diane Cook Quote: “And she loved Agnes fiercely, though motherhood felt like a heavy coat she was compelled to put on each day no matter the weather.”

6. “And she loved Agnes fiercely, though motherhood felt like a heavy coat she was compelled to put on each day no matter the weather.”

Diane Cook Quote: “At an age when she might have thought she didn’t need a mother, Bea craved hers more than ever.”

7. “At an age when she might have thought she didn’t need a mother, Bea craved hers more than ever.”

Diane Cook Quote: “Leaders shouldn’t enjoy leadership, she told herself. Like Glen said, it should be a role one takes because one feels obligated.”

8. “Leaders shouldn’t enjoy leadership, she told herself. Like Glen said, it should be a role one takes because one feels obligated.”

Diane Cook Quote: “Carl was strong, decisive, unkind when he needed to be. They just liked Carl better. Carl’s story, as told to them by Carl, was a better story. But Carl, it turned out, hadn’t any grand plan for leadership. No agenda or way forward. He just wanted to be leader and have everything go through him. Once that was secured, he delighted in being the enforcer.”

9. “Carl was strong, decisive, unkind when he needed to be. They just liked Carl better. Carl’s story, as told to them by Carl, was a better story. But Carl, it turned out, hadn’t any grand plan for leadership. No agenda or way forward. He just wanted to be leader and have everything go through him. Once that was secured, he delighted in being the enforcer.”

Diane Cook Quote: “Her mother turned to the fire, now standing shoulder to shoulder with her daughter. Not looking at her, she said, “There are some things you don’t understand. You think you do. But you don’t. I hope you never have to.”

10. “Her mother turned to the fire, now standing shoulder to shoulder with her daughter. Not looking at her, she said, “There are some things you don’t understand. You think you do. But you don’t. I hope you never have to.”

Diane Cook Quote: “Now that I have what I wanted, I feel somehow freed up to want more. Free to want without hesitation. I think wanting is man’s natural state. Now want is an insatiable thing in me.”

11. “Now that I have what I wanted, I feel somehow freed up to want more. Free to want without hesitation. I think wanting is man’s natural state. Now want is an insatiable thing in me.”

Diane Cook Quote: “How people felt about one another was always in the voice. In the way they talked to one another when they thought they were alone.”

12. “How people felt about one another was always in the voice. In the way they talked to one another when they thought they were alone.”

Diane Cook Quote: “But most of the twenty didn’t know much about science, and many of them didn’t even care about nature. These twenty had the same reasons people have always had for turning their backs on everything they’d known and venturing to an unfamiliar place. They went to the Wilderness State because there was no other place they could go.”

13. “But most of the twenty didn’t know much about science, and many of them didn’t even care about nature. These twenty had the same reasons people have always had for turning their backs on everything they’d known and venturing to an unfamiliar place. They went to the Wilderness State because there was no other place they could go.”

Diane Cook Quote: “The creatures. Agnes had noticed that a mother would only be a mother for so long before she wanted to be something else. No mother she’d ever watched here remained a mother forever.”

14. “The creatures. Agnes had noticed that a mother would only be a mother for so long before she wanted to be something else. No mother she’d ever watched here remained a mother forever.”

Diane Cook Quote: “What a sad thing, to have never been alive in this place.”

15. “What a sad thing, to have never been alive in this place.”

Diane Cook Quote: “They enjoyed being at the top too much. Every chance they had, they tried to subvert a Community decision to follow their own idea, and were gleeful when it worked. Leaders shouldn’t enjoy leadership, she told herself. Like Glen said, it should be a role one takes because one feels obligated.”

16. “They enjoyed being at the top too much. Every chance they had, they tried to subvert a Community decision to follow their own idea, and were gleeful when it worked. Leaders shouldn’t enjoy leadership, she told herself. Like Glen said, it should be a role one takes because one feels obligated.”

Diane Cook Quote: “He had been given something special that was being taken away, and he needed someone to blame.”

17. “He had been given something special that was being taken away, and he needed someone to blame.”

Diane Cook Quote: “I’ve watched loss daily, but sometimes it’s my mother I miss the most.”

18. “I’ve watched loss daily, but sometimes it’s my mother I miss the most.”

Diane Cook Quote: “That’s the thing, Bea,” he said, casting his eyes to her briefly. “Now that I have what I wanted, I feel somehow freed up to want more. Free to want without hesitation. I think wanting is man’s natural state.”

19. “That’s the thing, Bea,” he said, casting his eyes to her briefly. “Now that I have what I wanted, I feel somehow freed up to want more. Free to want without hesitation. I think wanting is man’s natural state.”

Diane Cook Quote: “Well, I don’t think I like consensus either,” said Frank. “It doesn’t feel very representative.”

20. “Well, I don’t think I like consensus either,” said Frank. “It doesn’t feel very representative.”

Diane Cook Quote: “What she wouldn’t have given for her mother.”

21. “What she wouldn’t have given for her mother.”

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