Kristin Hannah Quotes

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

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

It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.

~ 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

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

Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?

~ Kristin Hannah

. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy

~ 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

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

~ 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

He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.

~ 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

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

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

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

Caro: Bite me.Ruby: I gave that up in kindergarten.

~ Kristin Hannah

If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother. He loves a version of me that is incomplete. 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

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

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

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

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

... 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

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

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

~ 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