Kristin Hannah Quotes

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

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

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

~ 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

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

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

~ 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

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

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

~ Kristin Hannah

Do you love him?How would I know?You'd know.

~ 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

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

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 he

~ Kristin Hannah

Isabelle had always simply reacted in her life. Someone left her behind, she followed. Someone told her she couldn't do something, she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate.

~ Kristin Hannah

It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

~ 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

I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.

~ Kristin Hannah

Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

~ 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

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed.Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]. Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

~ 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

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

Vianne knelt down beside Sarah, she felt for a pulse and found none. The silence turned sour, thick; all Vianne could think about was the sound of this child's laughter and how empty the world would be without it.

~ Kristin Hannah

she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

~ Kristin Hannah

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

~ Kristin Hannah

The measure of a society is its compassion.

~ Kristin Hannah

Angie: How do I pitch these ideas to her?Mira: From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

~ Kristin Hannah

My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often—in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

~ 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

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

~ Kristin Hannah

I look at people who aren’t us and I hate them.

~ Kristin Hannah

Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t their child who had died. She heard I’m so sorry until she despised those words as she had never despised anything in her life, and she discovered an anger in her soul that was new.

~ Kristin Hannah

The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man's heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then...nothing.

~ 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

it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall

~ Kristin Hannah

Magic to be its best must be unexpected.

~ 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

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

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

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

~ Kristin Hannah