Quotes from Kristin Hannah

You know that food eases every trouble.' Angie found herself smiling. How many times in her life had she come home from school, devastated by some social slight, only to hear Mama say, Eat something. You'll feel better ... 'I've been through two divorces. Food so doesn't help. I tried to get her to put some tequila in the basket, but you know Mama.' She leaned closer. 'I have some Zoloft in my purse if you need it.

All her life she had waited—longed for—people to love her, but now she saw what really mattered. She had known love, been blessed by it.

and then the dawn, pink as salmon meat, buttery. Daylight.

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. Sometimes, settling down was just plain settling.

If I've learned nothing else in the past few days, it's that happiness must be fought for.

There was something she hadn't known when she went into marriage and became a mother that she knew now: it was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.

Men tell stories", I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it.

It's amazing how quickly a bone can heal. If only the heart were as durable.

I feel like Dorothy, back in Kansas, a black-and-white girl in a black-and-white world, with memories in color.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.… The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

By the time this damn war's over, we'll have hundreds of thousands of severely traumatized soldiers trying to put the pieces of their lives back together.

Love can get us through the hardest times. It can also be our hardest times.

She thought about the chain of choices that had led her here. A ten-degree shift anywhere along the way and everything would be different.

I am stronger than I use to be." As I say the words, I realize the truth of them. I am stronger now. Strong enough to reach for this dream...and strong enough to handle disappointment.

He sighed. "Sometimes life kicks the shit out of you; that's all. It's like the Stones said: You can't always get what you want.

in the wildest place in America, on the edge of civilization, where water in all its forms can kill you, you learn who you are. Not who you dream of being, not who you imagined you were, not who you were raised to be.

The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.

One thing was left, as clear and perfect as a drop of rain—the desperate need to stand together Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They would rise and fall and, in their falling, rise again. —SANORA BABB, WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN TWENTY-FOUR On the last day of January, a cold front moved into the valley

June is spring, July is summer, August is autumn, and everything else is winter.

Life changes, whether you want it to or not.

The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremities.

Fear made you run and hide and shame made you stay quiet

Love is a gift from God—what we do with it is up to us.

She collected grudges and heartaches the way she'd once collected Barbies, never sharing, never abandoning.