Kristin Hannah The Things We Do For Love Quotes & Sayings

Johnny looked at her. "I think we can't make people love us."
"Including our parents?"
Especially our parents. — Kristin Hannah

With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all. — Kristin Hannah

Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart. — Kristin Hannah

That's the funny thing about writing your life story. You start out trying to remember dates and times and names. You think it's about facts, your life; that what you'll look back on and remember are the successes and failures, the time line of your youth and middle age, but that isn't it at all. Love. Family. Laughter. That's what I remember when it's all said and done. — 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

But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us. — 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

If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected. — Kristin Hannah

Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up. — Kristin Hannah

You have so much love to give. It must hurt to hold it in all the time. — 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 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

How fragile life was, how fragile they were.
Love.
It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between. It didn't matter that she was broken and ugly and sick. He loved her and she loved him, All her life she had waited -longed for - people to love her, but now she saw what she really mattered. She had known love, been blessed by it. — Kristin Hannah

Love meant always being a little afraid. — Kristin Hannah

Magic to be its best must be unexpected". — 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

We are all changed by this war, Soph. Daniel is your brother now that Rachel is ... gone. Truly your brother. And this baby, he or she is innocent of ... his or her creation.'
'It's hard to forget,' she said quietly. 'And I'll never forgive.'
'But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.'
Sophie sighed. 'I suppose,' she said, sounding too adult for a girl of her age.
Vianne placed a hand on top of her daughter's. 'We will remind other, our? On the dark days. We will be strong for each other. — 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 don't know why it's so easy for me to forget how much I love her. We start fighting, and ... " "Sisters. — Kristin Hannah

She was wiser than she'd been before. Now she knew how fragile life and love were. Maybe she would love him for only this day, or maybe for only the next week, or maybe until she was an old, old woman. Maybe he would be the love of her life ... or her love for the duration of this war ... or maybe he would only be her first love. All she really knew was that in this terrible, frightening world, she had stumbled into something unexpected. And she would not let it go again. — Kristin Hannah

She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each other down, and yet, here they were after everything, together. She needed him now, needed him to remind her that she was live, that she wasn't alone, that she hadn't lost everything. — 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

I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I'll do it. — 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

A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable. — 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

In love we see who we want to be; in war we see who we are. — Kristin Hannah

Do you love him?"
How would I know?"
You'd know. — Kristin Hannah

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