Quotes from Kristin Hannah

You will learn that a lot of things are possible.

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

Walk. Run. Ride.

SUCH A THIN VEIL separated the past from the present; they existed simultaneously in the human heart.

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

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?

My husband ran off with his secretary. His male secretary. the only passion I have lately seems to center around buying a handgun. Unfortunately, I can't decide which one of us to shoot.

A searing, cleansing, enveloping love blew her heart into a million tiny pieces and reshaped it.

Best friends forever. They'd believed it would last, that vow, that someday they'd be old women, sitting in their rocking chairs on a creaking deck, talking about the times of their lives, and laughing...

Ah, Elsa. You got a wrong picture of yourself. Even if that is true, what does a person do about it? The things your parents say and the things your husband doesn't say become a mirror, don't they? You see yourself as they see you. and no mater how far you come, you bring that mirror with you. Break it, Jean said. How? With a gosh dang rock. Jean leaned forward. I'm a mirror too, Elsa. You remember that.

I think, as this war goes on, we will all have to look more deeply. These questions are not about them, but about us.

Love meant always being a little afraid.

She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra.

A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece, ladies, and choose it well; everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness).

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.

Fear and shame she understood. Fear made you run and hide and shame made you stay quiet, but this anger wanted something else. Release.

Remember, cara, hard times don't last. Land and family do.

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again. I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

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.

But now it is time to look ahead, not behind.

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn't that what her father's lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.

There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.

The darkness seemed to be rising rather than the sun falling. As if darkness were the natural order around here.

Maybe that's how God provides. He put me in your path and you in mine.