Kristin Hannah Quotes
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Kristin Hannah Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.
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.
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.
Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
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.
She had fallen into the fathomless gray that warped a mind and made a mother keep holding on long after hope was gone.
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
One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more.
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
The next morning, Angie woke with the sun ... Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.
Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.
Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.
I feel like Dorothy, back in Kansas, a black-and-white girl in a black-and-white world, with memories in color.
Johnny looked at her. "I think we can't make people love us."
"Including our parents?"
Especially our parents.
"Including our parents?"
Especially our parents.
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.
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.
Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.
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?
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,
Dreams. They were such precious commodities, and she'd given so many of hers away without a fight. Never again.
You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?
Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.
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.
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
He had abandoned her after all; it filled her with the kind of bone-deep disappointment she knew so well.
What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.
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?
them, she didn't want to know. As they neared Le Jardin, Vianne struggled to push the heavy wheelbarrow
Far below, a deep blue lake absorbed the reflection of the clouds. Manicured gardens allowed the villa's occupants - and, more important,
Even more important than what she gave her garden was what it gave her. In it, she found a sense of calm.
She learned then that some relationships ended without fireworks or tears or regret. They ended in silence. It
Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.
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.
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.