Quotes from Kristin Hannah

I smile at them, my two boys who should have broken me, but somehow saved me, each in his own way. Because of them, I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.

you don't stop loving a person when they're hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you. He needs me. Us.

Shadows crept along the ground like slowly seeping India ink, moved up the sides of the house, and slipped through the slats on the picket fence. Sunset tinted the sky purple and pink.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life. That's why women like Gloria Steinem are burning their bras and marching on Washington.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." —ANAÏS NIN

She leaned back against the sliding door and wondered at the vistas she wasn't seeing. It was all out there - the mystery, the beauty; beyond her ability to see now, but there just the same. It was simply a matter of timing and perspective, what one saw. Like with Mom. Perhaps everything had been there to be seen all along and Meredith had the wrong perspective, or not enough light.

You can run away from your life and your past, but there's no way to distance yourself from your own heart.

Isabelle had traded kisses with boys as if they were pennies to be left on park benches and lost in chair cushions—meaningless.

She smiled at the memory, even as it saddened her to think that somewhere along the way their dreams had untangled, gone on separate paths.

Some things need to be simply planted in the soft dirt of possibility.

She saw how death impacted people, saw the glazed look in their eyes, the way they shook their heads, the way their sentences broke in half as if they couldn't decide if silence or words would release them from sorrow.

Maybe she'd thought time was more elastic, or love more forgiving.

It's a dangerous business … going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." —J. R. R. Tolkien

She stayed in his arms as long as she could bear and then eased away.

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.

perhaps that's what life is, getting it wrong and going on, and still believing, always believing.

They had been friends in the way that only girls could be - they wore each other's clothes and slept at each other's houses and told each other every little secret. They promised to always stay friends.

It was one of those moments—an instant of grace in a crazy, sometimes impossibly dangerous world—that changed a man's life.

We remember the missing as much as the lost, don't we?

Angie looked at her. There was a heavy sadness in her eyes. "I wish I could make everything okay. But some dreams just pass us by. It's the way life is.

A wrecked marriage scares everyone. It's like a rock tossed into a still blue pond; the ripples go on and on.

Meg is planning your wedding? Honey, that's like asking the pope to plan a bar mitzvah.

In sleep, I dream about the Comfort Lodge and Daniel

Words were like pennies, fallen into corners and down the cracks, not worth the effort of collecting.