Quotes from kristen hannah

Love) isn't about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room, Lexi. It's about being together. Love is a choice you make.

That was how change came she supposed, in the quiet of things unspoken and truths unacknowledged. (The Great Alone)

Books had always been her solace. Novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her imagination.

You are more afraid of love than any person I've ever met. It's why you keep testing people pushing them away. Open your eyes.

After he left the house, she dried her hair and dressed in a pair of old, comfortable jeans and a white hoodie. Ordinarily, she'd take the time to put on makeup, but today she didn't feel the need to hide anything. She was who she was: a woman who'd survived a war of the heart and had the wrinkles to prove it.

Was this adulthood? This pruning of dreams to be practical?

After he left the house, she dried her hair and dressed in a pair of old, comfortable jeans and a white hoodie. Ordinarily, she'd take the time to put on makeup, but today she didn't feel the need to hide anything. She was who she was: a woman who'd survived a war of the heart and had the wrinkles to prove it. (Night Road, page 382)

She tried to pray but her prayers felt far away, remnants of another woman's body.

How was it that her whole life could be distilled down to that simple truth? Words mattered. Her life had been defined by things said and unsaid, and now her marriage was being undermined by silence.

The worst can always be true," Papa said grimly.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that she had lost. (Night Road, page 384)

You're as cold as ice, Dotty. You'll end up alone if you can't thaw.

Humiliated men could be dangerous.