Kristin Hannah Quotes

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

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.

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.

...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.

This time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match.

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.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

Magic to be its best must be unexpected.

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.

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

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.