Kristin Hannah Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By 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
Here's what I want you to know: I loved my life. For so long I was waiting for it to start, waiting for more. It seemed like all I did was drive and shop and wait. But you know what? I didn't miss a thing with my family. Not a moment. I was there for all of it. That's what I'll remember, and they'll have each other. — 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
She's sick and she's been treated badly, but she can't be gone. She had the heart of a lion. — 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
Quit pouting, girl. All a Milquetoast ever gets is wet. — Kristin Hannah
Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much. — Kristin Hannah
Memories- even the best of them- faded. — 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
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
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
She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt. — Kristin Hannah
Where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is
forgiveness. — 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
Someone told her she couldn't do something; she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate. — Kristin Hannah
To herself and wiping tears from her eyes, which turned — Kristin Hannah
Once you'd learned how bad life could go, and how quickly, you tried to protect those who remained. — 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
She waited for you in a thousand different ways. — 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
After that, they got hot dogs at a frankfurter stand and walked down the wharf. At Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe they saw shrunken heads and Egyptian mummies and cheap souvenirs. (Meg didn't point out the eight-foot-long petrified whale penis that hung suspended from the ceiling; she could just imagine what Ali would tell her friends.) — Kristin Hannah
judgmental looks cast her way by the — Kristin Hannah
Voice. And maybe — 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
You will learn that a lot of things are possible. — 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
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
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
I'm starting over now; this is my new beginning. — Kristin Hannah
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. — Kristin Hannah
She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking away the air you needed to breathe, creating a barrier between you and the world. The hell of it was that she'd been able to see all that she was missing, but when she'd reached out, all she'd touched was cold, hard glass. — 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
She unlocked the door and stepped inside. — 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
We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them. — 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
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
I once read a Stephen King book that used the term SSDD. Same shit, different day. — Kristin Hannah
Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment."
Student: "Prone. — 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
It was the very bleakness of winter that made spring possible. — 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
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
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
Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out."
Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult. — 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
Vianne didn't hesitate. 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. She reached for the toddler, took him in her arms. — Kristin Hannah
There's no fair in life and death. — Kristin Hannah
It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life. — Kristin Hannah
Teach the boys how to be gentlemen and Marah how to be strong. — Kristin Hannah
Please don't humiliate me by killing yourself before we can save your life. — 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
You have so much love to give. It must hurt to hold it in all the time. — 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
Ah. Consequences," Madame said. "Perhaps now you will see that they should be considered. — Kristin Hannah
protected her as best we could. She refused to — 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
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
It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care. — Kristin Hannah
A dark purple sky filled with the first few evening stars made her feel small. She smiled; that was what she expected from the sky. All her life, she'd gone out at night and stood beneath that blue velvet darkness. It was her temple, the true house of God, and it never failed to remind her of her place. — Kristin Hannah
That was Jolene, cleaning up even when life was falling apart. — Kristin Hannah
They hadn't loved each other enough in the time they had, and then time ran out. — 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
Nina stared at the woman who had raised her and saw the truth at last.
Her mother was a lioness. A warrior. A woman who'd chosen a life of hell for herself because she wanted to give up and didn't know how.
And with that small understanding came another, bigger one. Nina suddenly saw her own life in focus. All these years, she'd been traveling the world over, looking for her own truth in other woman's lives.
But it was here all along, at home with the one woman she's never even tried to understand. No wonder Nina had never felt finished, never wanted to publish her photographs of the woman. Her quest had always been leading up to this moment, this understanding. She's been hiding behind the camera, looking through the glass, trying to find herself. But how could she? How could any woman know her own story until she knew her mother's? — 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
I look at people who aren't us and I hate them. — Kristin Hannah
In sleep, I dream about the Comfort Lodge and Daniel — 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
It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love. — 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
from me I couldn't give. He pulled away from me, or — Kristin Hannah
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - ALBERT CAMUS — 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
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
What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people. — 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
Caro: "Bite me."
Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten. — Kristin Hannah
She was so unlike the other women he'd slept with. Course, they were whores, mostly ... — 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
This is what they have done to us. We are afraid of our own shadows." She — 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
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
Annie had made so many mistakes, and most of them had been because she'd planted herself firmly in the middle of the road. But now she knew that life without risk was impossible, and if by chance you stumbled across a safe, serene existence, it was because you'd never really reached for anything in the first place. — Kristin Hannah
Some things end.
Love shouldn't be one of those things. — Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale has sung — Kristin Hannah
It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs. — 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've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time. — 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
Love matters. Maybe its the only thing that does. — Kristin Hannah
I love you, Mommy," Marah said. To the world at large, perhaps this was an ordinary moment in an ordinary day, but to Kate it was extraordinary. This was the reason she'd chosen to stay home instead of work. She judged the meaning of her life in nanoseconds, perhaps, but she wouldn't trade this instant for anything. "I love you, too. That's why we're playing hooky for the rest of the day. We're going to go to a matinee of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Marah slid out of the booth, grinning. "You're the best mommy ever." Kate laughed. "I just hope you remember that when you're a teenager. — 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
For the first time in his life, he was going to be a goddamn hero. — 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
without the aid of alcohol. "There are no parties to attend," he — Kristin Hannah
Magic to be its best must be unexpected". — Kristin Hannah
Love meant always being a little afraid. — Kristin Hannah
A German walked up to her, his rifle — Kristin Hannah