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I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. What was love when put up against war? -- Kristin Hannah
and she smiles at me, my best friend, with her long, tangled blond hair and thick eyelashes and her smile that lights up any room. My other half. The girl who took my hand all those years ago and didn't let go until she had to. -- Kristin Hannah
A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE. -- Kristin Hannah
She wouldn't have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes. -- Kristin Hannah
Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. - REMCO CAMPERT -- Kristin Hannah
You can run away from your life and your past, but there's no way to distance yourself from your own heart. -- Kristin Hannah
But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us. -- Kristin Hannah
I was always a little girl, lost in Oz, looking for a way to believe that there was no place like home ... -- Kristin Hannah
Ever since you were a girl, you've been running for what you wanted ... Now you're lost, but you're still running full speed ... How will you ever figure out what you want when everything is a blur? -- Kristin Hannah
That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. -- Kristin Hannah
What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are. -- Kristin Hannah
The Mularkeys all saw love as a durable, reliable thing, easy to recognize ... Love could be more fragile than a sparrow's bone. -- Kristin Hannah
I don't want him to say his hope (wish) out loud. Some things need to be simply planted in the soft dirt of possibility. -- Kristin Hannah
In the last few moments before dawn, Vianne sat near the mound of fresh-turned earth. She wanted to pray, but her faith felt far away, the remnant of another woman's life. -- Kristin Hannah
With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all. -- Kristin Hannah
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop. -- Kristin Hannah
I don't know why it's so easy for me to forget how much I love her. We start fighting, and ... " "Sisters. -- Kristin Hannah
Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out."
Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult. -- Kristin Hannah
She gave herself over to the sensations of the kiss, let it become the whole of her universe, and knew finally how it felt to be enough for someone. -- Kristin Hannah
Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is ... Being afraid ... and going on. -- Kristin Hannah
I was not good at the whole making-death-a-positive-transition thing. How could I? I wanted her to fight to the last breath. It was a mistake. I should have listened to her fear, comforted her. Instead I'd promised her that everything would be okay, that she would heal. -- Kristin Hannah
Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart. -- Kristin Hannah
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her. -- Kristin Hannah
Oh, Mia. You haven't even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can't see how special you are, he isn't good enough for you. -- Kristin Hannah
I think maybe 'in love' has the shelf life of whipping cream. No matter how you handle it, it goes sour. But if you're lucky, you get past 'in love' and end up just loving someone. -- Kristin Hannah
You were struggling to break free of being my daughter but unsure of how to be yourself, while I was afraid to let you go. It's the circle of love. -- Kristin Hannah
To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again. -- Kristin Hannah
For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered. -- Kristin Hannah
Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better. -- Kristin Hannah
I have never known how to say goodbye. It is a failing that has been with me all of my life. It's especially problematic, given how often partings have come up. -- Kristin Hannah
Rain Valley newcomers pretty much fell into two groups: people running away from something and people running away from everything. -- Kristin Hannah
No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. - ANNA AKHMATOVA, FROM POEMS OF AKHMATOVA, TRANSLATED BY STANLEY KUNITZ, WITH MAX HAYWARD -- Kristin Hannah
She whispered in his ear. "Tell my sister I asked about her. We parted badly." He smiled. "I am constantly arguing with my brother, even in war. In the end, we're brothers. -- Kristin Hannah
She was touching his body with her tongue, and he felt it there, but somehow what she was doing went deeper. As if that gentle, moist tongue of hers were flicking his heart as well. -- Kristin Hannah
Nora's gaze was steady. "No matter how dark a place is, there are always moments of light. That's what I passed on to you and Caroline, my moments of light. -- Kristin Hannah
To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again? -- Kristin Hannah
Girls like you can't understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime. -- Kristin Hannah
I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain. -- Kristin Hannah
In that quiet, Ruby heard the echo of a broken family; they were individual pieces, now separate, wanting a wholeness that had been shattered. -- Kristin Hannah
How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under a sky lit up by fireworks, but an ordinary Sunday morning when your husband brought you a glass of water, two aspirins, and a heating pad for your cramps? -- Kristin Hannah
There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid. -- Kristin Hannah
Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France? -- Kristin Hannah
I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time. -- Kristin Hannah
Where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is
forgiveness. -- Kristin Hannah
She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice. -- Kristin Hannah
But sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady. -- Kristin Hannah
Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it." Mother -- Kristin Hannah
We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we ... bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do. -- Kristin Hannah
way onto the train. -- Kristin Hannah
There's nothing wrong with being scared ... It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we're afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us. -- Kristin Hannah
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - ALBERT CAMUS -- Kristin Hannah
It hurts almost more than I can bear. Tears sting my eyes again; I wipe them away impatiently. I am so tired of crying, so tired of feeling like half a person, but I don't know how to change things... (I have never felt so lost and alone.) -- Kristin Hannah
from me I couldn't give. He pulled away from me, or -- Kristin Hannah
Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment."
Student: "Prone. -- Kristin Hannah
After so many solitary years, spent tucked away in convents and forgotten in boarding schools, Isabelle never took for granted the fact that now she had friends, people whom she cared about and who cared about her. -- Kristin Hannah
It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life. -- Kristin Hannah
Sometimes you have to do everything right and follow the rules. You have to wait until all your ducks are in a row before you make a move. And other times ... like now ... you have to say 'what the hell' and go for it. -- Kristin Hannah
wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - ATTICUS FINCH, FROM HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD -- Kristin Hannah
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost. -- Kristin Hannah
probably never said I love you to another human being . . . How could Kate have said that? And then not called to apologize . . . or to say hello . . . or even to wish her a happy birthday? -- Kristin Hannah
So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.
It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular. -- Kristin Hannah
He'd always had a joke for Francis in the confessional, a 'sin' that could be counted on to cause a young priest to grin behind the safety of the wooden shield. Bless me, Father, for I put tuna in the chicken salad. -- Kristin Hannah
The next morning, Angie woke with the sun ... Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.
Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories. -- Kristin Hannah
I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults. -- Kristin Hannah
In the years that she had been tying scraps to the branches, the tree had died and the fruit had turned bitter. The other apple trees were hale and healthy, but this one, the tree of her remembrances, was as black and twisted as the bombed-out town behind it. -- Kristin Hannah
Well, to be precise - and I know how important the facts are to you, Christophe - it's your mother's automobile. And I believe a woman should drive a woman's automobile. -- Kristin Hannah
I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship], -- Kristin Hannah
He has been in her heart for so long it is as if she knows him already, but she doesn't. She does not know what to say or how to say it, and suddenly she is afraid that there is a wrong way to move forward, a mistake that once made cannot be undone. -- Kristin Hannah
The street was a living, breathing dragon of humanity, inching forward, wheezing dirt, honking horns; people yelling for help, babies crying, and the smell of sweat heavy in the air. -- Kristin Hannah
Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire. -- Kristin Hannah
Vianne knew Rachel wasn't asking how to hide in the barn; she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper "good-bye." "I can't leave her. -- Kristin Hannah
Your children are French-born citizens," the policeman said. "You may leave them here. They're not on my list. -- Kristin Hannah
She had fallen into the fathomless gray that warped a mind and made a mother keep holding on long after hope was gone. -- Kristin Hannah
That was Jolene, cleaning up even when life was falling apart. -- Kristin Hannah
But that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream. -- Kristin Hannah
Kate heard the bravado in her friend's voice and saw it in her eyes. "I prayed for you." "You did?" Tully asked. "Wow. Thanks." Kate didn't know what to say to that. To her, praying was like brushing your teeth before bed, just something you did. Tully -- Kristin Hannah
Eduardo started a fire, made a pot of ersatz -- Kristin Hannah
I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you. -- Kristin Hannah
Life is messy
especially now
it will help if you accept the mess and let it be. -- Kristin Hannah
She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare. -- Kristin Hannah
My husband ran off with his secretary. His male secretary. the only passion I have lately seems to center around buying a handgun. Unfortunately, I can't decide which one of us to shoot. -- Kristin Hannah
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. -- Kristin Hannah
No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother. -- Kristin Hannah
They were so ... larger than life, these Yanks, with their ready smiles and booming voices. And their gratitude ... She'd lost track of the times an American had hugged her so tightly she'd come off her feet. -- Kristin Hannah
Do you love him?"
How would I know?"
You'd know. -- Kristin Hannah
The lights are going out all over Europe; We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. - SIR EDWARD GREY, ON WORLD WAR I -- Kristin Hannah
Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing, the staying where you said you'd be and working to keep the love strong. -- Kristin Hannah
Life keeps going. You think it'll stop, wait for you to be done crying, but it just keeps moving. Don't spend your time looking back. You don't want to miss what's ahead. -- Kristin Hannah
Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing. -- Kristin Hannah
Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. -- Kristin Hannah
Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. 'Real hurts.' -- Kristin Hannah
Does one follow a leader blindly? -- Kristin Hannah
I am stronger than I use to be. As I say the words, I realize the truth of them. I am stronger now. Strong enough to reach for this dream ... and strong enough to handle disappointment. -- Kristin Hannah
Talking about Meghann's painful choice and the lonely years that had followed it wouldn't help. Her past wasn't a collection of memories to be worked through; it was like an oversize Samsonite with a bum wheel. -- Kristin Hannah
Lost is lost; it's when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you. -- Kristin Hannah
She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart. -- Kristin Hannah
That's why you're so strong and I'm not." "You will have to be," Isabelle said. "For Sophie." Vianne drew in a breath. And there it was. The reason she couldn't eat a bowl of arsenic or throw herself in front of a train. -- Kristin Hannah
She fought back the only way she knew how - by caring for her fellow prisoners and helping them to stay strong. -- Kristin Hannah
Let him think she was as safe as one could be. A coward. -- Kristin Hannah
She ate life with unapologetic enthusiasm and took as many helpings as she wanted. -- Kristin Hannah
I want to imagine there will be peace when I am gone, that I will see all of the people I have loved and lost. At least that I will be forgiven. I -- Kristin Hannah
He stood up slowly and took her in his arms. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. Remember -- Kristin Hannah
What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people. -- Kristin Hannah
I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you ... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones. -- Kristin Hannah
It isn't about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It's about being together. Love is a choice you make. -- Kristin Hannah
She learned then that some relationships ended without fireworks or tears or regret. They ended in silence. It -- Kristin Hannah
Protest. Vianne was not alone in her desire to pretend -- Kristin Hannah
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T. S. Eliot, from "East Coker -- Kristin Hannah
Night rather than to gobble it all up at once. And -- Kristin Hannah
For years, she'd mistaken habit and affection for true love. She had assumed that the love she gave her husband was a reflection of the love he felt for her, and now, because of her blindness, she was alone. -- Kristin Hannah
I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be. -- Kristin Hannah
Get what?" she asked, but she didn't want to hear. "That every time we kiss, it's good-bye. -- Kristin Hannah
She knew, too, that love didn't evaporate. It faded, perhaps, lost its weight like bones left out in the sun, but it didn't go away. -- Kristin Hannah
She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt. -- Kristin Hannah
tried to keep smiling. Truc took the beer from her and stood there in the pale rectangle of light. The dogs were quiet beside -- Kristin Hannah
The quarterback? Wow. My mom wouldn't let me stand in the same checkout line as a high school senior. She's so lame.
She's not lame.
She thinks eighteen year old boys are dangerous. She calls them penises with hands and feet. Tell me that isn't lame. -- Kristin Hannah
Madelaine: I guess it's up to you to carve the turkey.
Angel: Come on, bro, show me how to carve up this bird.
Francis: Start at the breast, Angel. God knows, you should know how to do that. -- Kristin Hannah
Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that. -- Kristin Hannah
There's no fair in life and death. -- Kristin Hannah
Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last. -- Kristin Hannah
We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid. -- Kristin Hannah
A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece, ladies, and choose it well; everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness). -- Kristin Hannah
Behind them, attached to the harness, was a -- Kristin Hannah
That was her mistake. She'd pinned her happiness to a teenage girl's chest. Idiot. The realization made her almost smile. She certainly knew better than that. -- Kristin Hannah
Any more motherly attention and I could end up strapped to a table in Ward B singing 'I Gotta Be Me. -- Kristin Hannah
When you get ... to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters. -- Kristin Hannah
Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice. -- Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale has sung -- Kristin Hannah
Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever. -- Kristin Hannah
They had been friends in the way that only girls could be - they wore each other's clothes and slept at each other's houses and told each other every little secret. They promised to always stay friends. -- Kristin Hannah
Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still. -- Kristin Hannah
Generally, Madame, the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach." Breaths -- Kristin Hannah
Hope was an elevator right now, broken from its cables. -- Kristin Hannah
Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between. -- Kristin Hannah
Love matters. Maybe its the only thing that does. -- Kristin Hannah
ran along the stone wall. Two years ago this pantry had been full to overflowing with hams smoked in ash and jars full of duck fat set beside coils of sausage. Bottles of aged champagne -- Kristin Hannah
And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil. -- Kristin Hannah
Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention. -- Kristin Hannah
You'd be surprised at what I can do. -- Kristin Hannah
Isabelle and the men were approaching the -- Kristin Hannah
Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that? -- Kristin Hannah
I know what it is like; some images, once seen, can never be forgotten. -- Kristin Hannah
She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other. -- Kristin Hannah
She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive. -- Kristin Hannah
Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth. -- Kristin Hannah
Her teenage daughter was sprouting like a tree, blooming every day into another variation of who she would someday become. Moods twisted her up and left her looking sometimes like a girl who'd just washed up onshore, unable to quite remember who she was and who she wanted to be. Kate -- Kristin Hannah
She realized that the landscape of a woman's soul could change as quickly as a world at war. -- Kristin Hannah
Home is part of us. It's in the scars we have on our knees and elbows, in the memories that surface when we sleep. I don't think you can ever really leave. -- Kristin Hannah
It's a promise ring," he said solemnly. "The lady at the store said it's what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday. -- Kristin Hannah
hidden from her. Still, the air is lighted and bright. -- Kristin Hannah
It had been the first kiss for both of them, and to this day, when Dean kissed a woman, he longed for the smell of the sea. -- Kristin Hannah
But it had gotten so boring, all that crying and wanting and needing. This year she'd realized that she'd never be like her mom, and the realization had freed her. She stopped trying to get good grades and make good friends, and do everything well. She had flourished in her rebellion, reveled in it. -- Kristin Hannah
Elizabeth: "Maybe he'll surprise you."
Meghann: "Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap. -- Kristin Hannah
I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror. -- Kristin Hannah
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. -- Kristin Hannah
Perhaps I am as mad and impetuous as they say. -- Kristin Hannah
Don't be who you needed to be over there. Come home to the people who love you. I wish to hell I'd figured out a way to do that. -- Kristin Hannah
She was crying for it all at last
for the pain and loss and fear and anger, for the war and what it had done to her and to all of them, for the knowledge of evil she could never shake, for the horror of where she'd been and what she'd done to survive. -- Kristin Hannah
singing along with the radio. It was blasting a song by the Butthole Surfers. -- Kristin Hannah
daughter had had a way of saying things that rubbed Nora the wrong way. More often than not, they both ended up saying something they regretted. -- Kristin Hannah
And maybe that was how it was supposed to be ... Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly ... -- Kristin Hannah
Bad things are happening, Madame. Impossible things. I trained to be a soldier, to fight for my country and make my family proud. It was an honorable choice. What will be thought of us upon our return? What will be thought of me? -- Kristin Hannah
This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best to move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there's a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day ... -- Kristin Hannah
I thought change started from within."
"Sometimes. Sometimes it's forced upon you. -- Kristin Hannah
Isabelle sipped the brandy. Experience had taught -- Kristin Hannah
This is what they have done to us. We are afraid of our own shadows." She -- Kristin Hannah
The love of books, of reading. There is nothing a librarian likes better than sharing her love of words with a child. -- Kristin Hannah
Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future. -- Kristin Hannah
If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow. -- Kristin Hannah
Both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever. -- Kristin Hannah
Such...theatrics in the wrong place could be dangerous. -- Kristin Hannah
Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark. -- Kristin Hannah
It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. -- Kristin Hannah
I feel like Dorothy, back in Kansas, a black-and-white girl in a black-and-white world, with memories in color. -- Kristin Hannah
You're not alone, and you're not the one in charge," Mother said gently. "Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God - and each other and ourselves - in times as dark as these. -- Kristin Hannah
That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by. -- Kristin Hannah
If ever I am inclined in the future to disbelieve in love, I will remember this moment. -- Kristin Hannah
Bitterness would do you good. All that smiling and pretending of yours would give me hives. -- Kristin Hannah
He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear
even one the size of a golf club
was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed. -- Kristin Hannah
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. -- Kristin Hannah
what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God? -- Kristin Hannah
A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren't a lie or useless. -- Kristin Hannah
I've been wanting to start over, dreaming of it. And now, finally, I know where I want to be when I begin this new part of my life. -- Kristin Hannah
It wouldn't hurt you to be afraid, you know. -- Kristin Hannah
What shall we drink to?"
"How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom -- Kristin Hannah
Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they're like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them. -- Kristin Hannah
Far below, a deep blue lake absorbed the reflection of the clouds. Manicured gardens allowed the villa's occupants - and, more important, -- Kristin Hannah
It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams. -- Kristin Hannah
They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us. I -- Kristin Hannah
In sleep, I dream about the Comfort Lodge and Daniel -- Kristin Hannah
I once read a Stephen King book that used the term SSDD. Same shit, different day. -- Kristin Hannah
New York was a city that showed off its greatness, sought to make tourists look at man's accomplishments with awe. D.C. knew that man's greatness lay not in stone and steel, but rather in ideas and decisions. -- Kristin Hannah
She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to -- Kristin Hannah
When I met your father, it was magic. Not for him - not then - but for me. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can look into a pair of eyes and see your whole future. -- Kristin Hannah
She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle. -- Kristin Hannah
Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent. -- Kristin Hannah
The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremities. -- Kristin Hannah
What did she wish? She didn't know. When she thought about it, that was the problem with her life, now and always, she'd never known what to wish for until it was too late. -- Kristin Hannah
Don't think about who they [the Nazis] are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you [Mother Superior to Vianne]. -- Kristin Hannah
It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love ... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world. -- Kristin Hannah
Locking up the house - their home - and driving away. The only slightly good news was that they weren't selling it. Someday, Dad promised, they'd return. The big things - furniture, art, -- Kristin Hannah
Fleetingly he wondered what the man's life had been like, where it had gone so desperately wrong. No one tried to end up like this, alone and defenseless and poor, eking a living from the harsh Arizona desert. -- Kristin Hannah
But when he looked at her - and she looked at him - they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to. -- Kristin Hannah
Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisal. -- Kristin Hannah
Someone told her she couldn't do something; she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate. -- Kristin Hannah
But how did you do that? How did two people move backward through time and untie a knot that had tangled through every moment of their lives? -- Kristin Hannah
Books + friendship = book club -- Kristin Hannah
A generation of men were going off to war. Again.
Don't think about it, Vianne told herself. Don't remember what it was like last time when the men limped home, faces burned, missing arms and legs... -- Kristin Hannah
Why was it so easy for men in the world to do as they wanted and so difficult for women? -- Kristin Hannah
By the time this damn war's over, we'll have hundreds of thousands of severely traumatized soldiers trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. -- Kristin Hannah
She was so tired of being considered disposable. -- Kristin Hannah
Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much. -- Kristin Hannah
Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain. -- Kristin Hannah
This time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match. -- Kristin Hannah
To herself and wiping tears from her eyes, which turned -- Kristin Hannah
A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable. -- Kristin Hannah
Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it. -- Kristin Hannah
she'd always believed that she didn't belong. It was, she realized, an ugly bit of baggage that she'd carried here from her youth, and she'd been so damned busy hanging on to it that she'd failed to notice that the bags were empty. -- Kristin Hannah
Elizabeth laughed. No way. You'll have to talk to Dad about this yourself, but I'll tell you this, honey, it's dangerous to quit something because you think you're not good enough. That can be an ugly pattern that repeats itself throughout your life. Believe me, I know. -- Kristin Hannah
please." When he smiled, deep dimples formed in his cheeks. She took the paper and frowned down at it. -- Kristin Hannah
In his face, I see the whole of my life. I see a baby who came to me long after I'd given up ... and a hint of the beauty I once had. I see ... my life in his eyes. -- Kristin Hannah
He had the kind of smile that inhabited every part of his face
his eyes, his cheeks; there was even a dimple. -- Kristin Hannah
Johnny looked at her. "I think we can't make people love us."
"Including our parents?"
Especially our parents. -- Kristin Hannah
Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob. -- Kristin Hannah
Now, darlin', you know that social etiquette is bred into us Southern girls." "Oh, please. You're as Southern as Tony Soprano." Mama sniffed. "I swear, I should have left you by the side of the road in Wheeling, West Virginia." "You did leave me there. -- Kristin Hannah
Summer ended. Hot golden days gave way to washed-out skies and falling rain. Isabelle was so focused on the escape route that she hardly noticed the change in weather. On -- Kristin Hannah
Kept stepping into the same mud puddle and expecting it to be dry. -- Kristin Hannah
For the first time in his life, he was going to be a goddamn hero. -- Kristin Hannah
You have so much love to give. It must hurt to hold it in all the time. -- Kristin Hannah
What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone? -- Kristin Hannah
Life changes, whether you want it to or not. -- Kristin Hannah
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. -- Kristin Hannah
She felt the end of the kiss as deeply as she'd felt the start of it. -- Kristin Hannah
You don't reason with men like Hitler. -- Kristin Hannah
Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over. -- Kristin Hannah
If I'm finally taking a trip into the unknown; there ought to be photographs to document this momentous event. -- Kristin Hannah
When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather. -- Kristin Hannah
Who has declared that murder is more newsworthy than the heartwarming story of an elderly woman who delivers Meals-on-Wheels to local AIDS sufferers? -- Kristin Hannah
Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner. -- Kristin Hannah
Best friends forever. They'd believed it would last, that vow, that someday they'd be old women, sitting in their rocking chairs on a creaking deck, talking about the times of their lives, and laughing ... -- Kristin Hannah
Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason. -- Kristin Hannah
It's not forgetting we need, Vianne," he said, leaning down to kiss her. "It's remembering. -- Kristin Hannah
Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie."
Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?"
"Sure. Can I have some money? -- Kristin Hannah
Another promise made by a man who'd kept too few. -- Kristin Hannah
They are heroes, our soldiers, the men and women who go into harm's way to protect us, our way of life. It doesn't matter what you think of the war, your have to be grateful to the warriors, of whom we ask so much. To whom we sometimes give too little. -- Kristin Hannah
Anita sighed dramatically. It was -- Kristin Hannah
Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up. -- Kristin Hannah
She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. -- Kristin Hannah
Tante Isabelle says it's better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you'll fly before you fall. -- Kristin Hannah
She'd lost too much of herself in parenthood to simply go back to who she'd been before. -- Kristin Hannah
The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.
I want to imagine there will be peace when I am gone, that I will see all of the people I have loved and lost. At least that I will be forgiven. -- Kristin Hannah
Mrs. Rondle gave us a pop quiz. So lame. -- Kristin Hannah
If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected. -- Kristin Hannah
She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra. -- Kristin Hannah
Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"
Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor. -- Kristin Hannah
Claire knew she loved her daughter too much; it was dangerous to need another human being so desperately, but Claire had never known any other way to love. -- Kristin Hannah
It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow. -- Kristin Hannah
Dreams. They were such precious commodities, and she'd given so many of hers away without a fight. Never again. -- Kristin Hannah
It is nearly impossible.'
'Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing. -- Kristin Hannah
It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love. -- Kristin Hannah
Magic to be its best must be unexpected". -- Kristin Hannah
We'll be friends through jobs and kids and marriages. -- Kristin Hannah
You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life. -- Kristin Hannah
Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present. -- Kristin Hannah
on a cough, but of course there was -- Kristin Hannah
I'm starting over now; this is my new beginning. -- Kristin Hannah
Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house.
Would you Helen? Would you really? -- Kristin Hannah
She waited for you in a thousand different ways. -- Kristin Hannah
A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship. -- Kristin Hannah
Instead of fixing himself, he drank and made himself worse, but the man he became was not the man he was, -- Kristin Hannah
She unlocked the door and stepped inside. -- Kristin Hannah
judgmental looks cast her way by the -- Kristin Hannah
The truth of my circumstance climbs into the bed with me and takes up too much room. -- Kristin Hannah
Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain. -- Kristin Hannah
Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no. -- Kristin Hannah
At my age, I should not be afraid of anything - certainly not my own past. -- Kristin Hannah
It circled back to her looks, as most snide comments did. Surely a pretty blond girl had to be shallow and dim-witted. -- Kristin Hannah
From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other. -- Kristin Hannah
Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away. -- Kristin Hannah
But now it is time to look ahead, not behind. -- Kristin Hannah
I could tell you it was a Jean Valjean sort of stay and you would think it was romantic. -- Kristin Hannah
We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention. Lately, -- Kristin Hannah
I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out. -- Kristin Hannah
Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up. -- Kristin Hannah
Remember this, she thought. The way the light caught in his unruly hair, the love in his brown eyes, the chapped lips that had kissed her only an hour ago, in the darkness. -- Kristin Hannah
She wanted to daydream, pretend that her world was upright instead of fallen on its side; -- Kristin Hannah
Question was gone, tossed onto the pile of lost chances that made up Before. -- Kristin Hannah
I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us. -- Kristin Hannah
I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way. -- Kristin Hannah
Shadows crept along the ground like slowly seeping India ink, moved up the sides of the house, and slipped through the slats on the picket fence. Sunset tinted the sky purple and pink. -- Kristin Hannah
Hello?"
'It's me. I'm having a crisis.'
"I'll be there in twenty minutes. -- Kristin Hannah
... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore. -- Kristin Hannah
Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you. -- Kristin Hannah
You two have always been each other's armor and sword. -- Kristin Hannah
I think maybe love can just ... dissolve."
"No, it does not," her mother said.
"So how do
"
"You hang on," her mother said. "Until your hands are bleeding, and still you do not let go. -- Kristin Hannah
Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs. -- Kristin Hannah
At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup. -- Kristin Hannah
Children become adults who become children again. -- Kristin Hannah
He had abandoned her after all; it filled her with the kind of bone-deep disappointment she knew so well. -- Kristin Hannah
Throat and eyes and made her cough constantly. -- Kristin Hannah
Lulu twirled in front of Jolene, banging into the seat. her eyes sparkled in that I'm-either-going-to-scream-or-fall-asleep-any-second kind of way. -- Kristin Hannah
boy. Clark Gable, maybe. -- Kristin Hannah
You said I was supposed to shoot you if you even thiught about narriage before thirty. You want to amenr that? -- Kristin Hannah
She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as carefully as the secret of fire. -- Kristin Hannah
It was the very bleakness of winter that made spring possible. -- Kristin Hannah
Stop thinking about what you've lost, and think about what you have left. -- Kristin Hannah
This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much. -- Kristin Hannah
And no one drank just one shot of tequila. -- Kristin Hannah
From now on, she was Juliette Gervaise, code name the Nightingale. -- Kristin Hannah
something you wish you'd -- Kristin Hannah
Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it's there. You get my point? -- Kristin Hannah
I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway. -- Kristin Hannah
She was so tired of being strong. -- Kristin Hannah
A broken heart hurts as badly in wartime as in peace. -- Kristin Hannah
I just want to keep you safe.
I smile. Americans can be so naive. -- Kristin Hannah
Will." "I just want to keep you safe." I smile. Americans can be -- Kristin Hannah
If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride. -- Kristin Hannah
Didier. Anyway, there is a man, a printer, risking his life to make tracts that we can distribute. Maybe if we can get the French to -- Kristin Hannah
You can be anything you want. But you have to take a risk sometimes. Reach out. -- Kristin Hannah
One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more. -- Kristin Hannah
The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase. -- Kristin Hannah
Caro: "Bite me."
Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten. -- Kristin Hannah
Drama, she'd learned, was like good punctuation: it underscored your point. -- Kristin Hannah
The father who went off to war was not the one who came home. She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other. -- Kristin Hannah
I didn't know how ... deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life. -- Kristin Hannah
being a doctor was a snap compared to being a single parent. -- Kristin Hannah
She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form. -- Kristin Hannah
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. -- Kristin Hannah
They were at war. Time was the one luxury no one had anymore. Tomorrow felt as ephemeral as a kiss in the dark. She -- Kristin Hannah
Depression has descended like a bell jar around me. -- Kristin Hannah
I would not love him again. Not if I had known how it would feel to live with a broken heart. -- Kristin Hannah
They hadn't loved each other enough in the time they had, and then time ran out. -- Kristin Hannah
She was so unlike the other women he'd slept with. Course, they were whores, mostly ... -- Kristin Hannah
I look at people who aren't us and I hate them. -- Kristin Hannah
Now that you've met me, you'll never be able to forget me. That's something. -- Kristin Hannah
She had this terrible, irrational fear that if she let go of him she would never touch him again and the thought of that was paralyzing. -- Kristin Hannah
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement. -- Kristin Hannah
Quit pouting, girl. All a Milquetoast ever gets is wet. -- Kristin Hannah
Know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. -- Kristin Hannah
It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained. -- Kristin Hannah
Love meant always being a little afraid. -- Kristin Hannah
It was the truest fact of her world. She loved everything about this man, his smile, the way he mumbled in his sleep and laughed after a sneeze and sang opera in the shower. She -- Kristin Hannah
She'd hear in France. Surrender. Isabelle hobbled out of the room on her bloody feet and went into the backyard, needing air suddenly, unable to draw a decent breath. Surrender. France. To Hitler. It must be for the best, -- Kristin Hannah
thrust deep inside her body, -- Kristin Hannah
It embarrassed Isabelle that he felt the need to say this to her, and in front of everyone. -- Kristin Hannah
Voice. And maybe -- Kristin Hannah
She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. -- Kristin Hannah
You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you? -- Kristin Hannah
A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres. -- Kristin Hannah
Beauty was just another way to discount her, to not see her. -- Kristin Hannah
I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I'll do it. -- Kristin Hannah
Popularity means people think they know you. -- Kristin Hannah
Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said. -- Kristin Hannah
They were always doing that to each other, misinterpreting, imagining the worst. No wonder every conversation bruised one or the other. -- Kristin Hannah
Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade. -- Kristin Hannah
hugged him tightly and then -- Kristin Hannah
Isabelle went to the airman. As she neared him, she -- Kristin Hannah
saving them money and helping them out. "Dad?" she said. "Could you stay -- Kristin Hannah
He's made a mistake in coming here tonight. He'd wanted to see a room filled with ruffly knickknacks and lacy gewgaws. A room like any other, to indicate that she was a woman like any other. -- Kristin Hannah
What matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds -- Kristin Hannah
they'd learn what needed to be held close in life, and what wasn't worth worrying over. -- Kristin Hannah
Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it. -- Kristin Hannah
You will learn that a lot of things are possible. -- Kristin Hannah
She wanted to say "Don't leave me," but she couldn't do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her. Besides, -- Kristin Hannah
Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter. -- Kristin Hannah
A dad ... he teaches responsibility and accountability, but a mom ... ah, a mom teaches her child to dream, to reach for the stars and to believe in fairy tales. -- Kristin Hannah
them, she didn't want to know. As they neared Le Jardin, Vianne struggled to push the heavy wheelbarrow -- Kristin Hannah
It's amazing how quickly a bone can heal. If only the heart were as durable. -- Kristin Hannah
The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line. -- Kristin Hannah
Vietnam ... war ... it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow. -- Kristin Hannah
Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate -- Kristin Hannah
I kept an image of you in my mind through all of it. -- Kristin Hannah
But he wasn't that man anymore. He had lost too much, and in his loss, he'd thrown more away. -- Kristin Hannah
What's more serious than a kiss on the brink of war? -- Kristin Hannah
For all my dreams of complex new beginnings and convoluted endings, it can be as easy as this: a boy singing hymns again. -- Kristin Hannah
She's sick and she's been treated badly, but she can't be gone. She had the heart of a lion. -- Kristin Hannah
Love shows us who we want to be. War shows us who we are. -- Kristin Hannah
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so. - -- Kristin Hannah
You look great," he said.
It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house."
He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career. -- Kristin Hannah
The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - MARCEL PROUST -- Kristin Hannah
Memories- even the best of them- faded. -- Kristin Hannah
German woman yanked Isabelle forward. She stumbled along, her feet screaming in pain, -- Kristin Hannah
You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet. -- Kristin Hannah
You sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy -- Kristin Hannah
Some things end.
Love shouldn't be one of those things. -- Kristin Hannah
Their kiss was sad, an apology almost, a reminder of what they'd once shared. -- Kristin Hannah
No platitudes, Dr. Cerrasin? No 'God doesn't give you more than you can bear' speech?" "Call me Max. Please." He looked at her. "And sometimes God breaks your fucking back." It -- Kristin Hannah
It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs. -- Kristin Hannah
Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it. -- Kristin Hannah
watching her. No one was. -- Kristin Hannah
He was lanky, wiry as an apostrophe mark, and dressed in clothes that appeared to have come from a beggar's bin. -- Kristin Hannah
It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you. -- Kristin Hannah
The failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach. -- Kristin Hannah
Please don't humiliate me by killing yourself before we can save your life. -- Kristin Hannah
We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again.
I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his. -- Kristin Hannah
Smiling too brightly, -- Kristin Hannah
Sometimes holding on was all you could do. -- Kristin Hannah
The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives. -- Kristin Hannah
Even more important than what she gave her garden was what it gave her. In it, she found a sense of calm. -- Kristin Hannah
She is angry. And angry people make mistakes in war and die. -- Kristin Hannah
The worst can always be true," Papa said grimly. -- Kristin Hannah
Once you'd learned how bad life could go, and how quickly, you tried to protect those who remained. -- Kristin Hannah
One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life. -- Kristin Hannah
It's not my fault, -- Kristin Hannah
I am afraid t put it into words, this fragile impossible hope of mine, and more afraid not to. -- Kristin Hannah
In the past days, she'd come to understand the importance of upheaval. The tallest mountains were created by violence and chaos; like them, a woman's independence was born of fire. -- Kristin Hannah
He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination. -- Kristin Hannah
Conlan: "She's not Sophia."
Angie: "She's somebody's Sophia. -- Kristin Hannah
Show us your true colors, who you used to be. -- Kristin Hannah
It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to. -- Kristin Hannah
And there it is: the core of everything. We're sisters. We know each other intimately. Our pasts, our secrets, our fears. It is a precious gift that we tried to throw away but can't really let go of. -- Kristin Hannah
We have to try to save him or we are as bad as they are, she -- Kristin Hannah
Walk. Run. Ride. -- Kristin Hannah
Or you, Papa," she said. "Or you. -- Kristin Hannah
Holy shit, she was serious. -- Kristin Hannah
A German walked up to her, his rifle -- Kristin Hannah
I'm afraid, I say, surprising myself with the admission. I can't remember admitting such a thing in years, although it has often been true. Four -- Kristin Hannah
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing. -- Kristin Hannah
He liked whores. He always had. -- Kristin Hannah
In love we see who we want to be; in war we see who we are. -- Kristin Hannah
patriotism is not enough. -- Kristin Hannah
Have we? Have we lost our light, or have we perhaps just glimpsed it for the first time? -- Kristin Hannah
protected her as best we could. She refused to -- Kristin Hannah
Teach the boys how to be gentlemen and Marah how to be strong. -- Kristin Hannah
Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free. -- Kristin Hannah
We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them. -- Kristin Hannah
I don't know how romantic I am, but I only know one way to love...All the way. When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing. -- Kristin Hannah
Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys ... show them these words when they can't remember me. -- Kristin Hannah
It's funny how things slip away, pieces of us, even. -- Kristin Hannah
The smile he gave her was barely one at all. We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war. -- Kristin Hannah
To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost. -- Kristin Hannah
and a pronounced chin and deep-set gray -- Kristin Hannah
loneliness is the worst kind of poverty, -- Kristin Hannah
We asked so little of ourselves - and most of us got exactly what we asked for. Funny how that works. -- Kristin Hannah
As she neared her destination, she took her glasses off. She hadn't come to the point where she trusted the world as seen through a lens. -- Kristin Hannah
We are all fragile. It's the thing we learn in war -- Kristin Hannah
Abuse can make an animal mean. -- Kristin Hannah
One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She -- Kristin Hannah
While they were virtual roller coasters of emotion, you needed to be calm, always. -- Kristin Hannah
She'd crawled into her grief and cocooned it around her, unable to care about anyone or anything - -- Kristin Hannah
I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known. -- Kristin Hannah
The measure of a society is its compassion. -- Kristin Hannah
without the aid of alcohol. "There are no parties to attend," he -- Kristin Hannah
Sometimes we have to forgive the people we love, even if we're mad as hell. That's just how it is. -- Kristin Hannah
If there's one thing I never do, it's stop. -- Kristin Hannah
through hell, keep going. - WINSTON CHURCHILL -- Kristin Hannah
This is no place for anyone," Vianne -- Kristin Hannah
this wasn't the end. She had to remember that. Each day she lived there was a chance for salvation. She couldn't give up. She could never give up. -- Kristin Hannah
I know a thing or two about jealousy, how it can cut you to the bone and bring out the worst in you. -- Kristin Hannah
Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you. -- Kristin Hannah
Ah. Consequences," Madame said. "Perhaps now you will see that they should be considered. -- Kristin Hannah
She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks -- Kristin Hannah
I loved you both with all of my damaged heart. -- Kristin Hannah
