Quotes from Kristin Hannah

She was so tired of being strong.

A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.

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

home was not just a cabin in a deep woods that overlooked a placid cove. Home was a state of mind, the peace that came from being who you were and living an honest life.

She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.

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

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave." - Grandpa Wolcott

When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

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

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.

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. Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

In the silence, Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.

You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life.

know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.

How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under a sky lit up by fireworks, but an ordinary Sunday morning when your husband brought you a glass of water, two aspirins, and a heating pad for your cramps?

You have a child, so you know. You are my heart, baby girl. You are everything I did right. And I want you to know I would do it all again, every wonderful terrible second of it. I would do years and years of it again for one minute with you.

All this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

If there's one thing I never do, it's stop.

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.

With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.