Quotes from Kristin Hannah

He stood up slowly and took her in his arms. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. Remember

I've been wanting to start over, dreaming of it. And now, finally, I know where I want to be when I begin this new part of my life.

You see, Loreda?" Elsa whispered. "They'll hurt the people who threaten their business." It was a long time before Loreda spoke, and when she did, her words were no comfort at all. "Sometimes you have to fight back, Mom.

I'm starting over now; this is my new beginning.

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.

Don't be who you needed to be over there. Come home to the people who love you. I wish to hell I'd figured out a way to do that.

But 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.

Vianne was thankful for the bell. She was a teacher, for God's sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child's fear when her own was straining at the leash?

I don't want him to say his hope (wish) out loud. Some things need to be simply planted in the soft dirt of possibility.

If you're going through hell, keep going. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

White sheets flapped in the breeze and roses tumbled like laughter along the ancient stone wall that hid her property from the road.

My dearest Tully— I am so sorry. I know how afraid you are of being alone, of being left behind, but God has His plan for all of us. I would have stayed with you longer if I could have. Your grandfather and I will always be watching out for you from Heaven.

Talking about Meghann's painful choice and the lonely years that had followed it wouldn't help. Her past wasn't a collection of memories to be worked through; it was like an oversize Samsonite with a bum wheel.

Life is short, her dad had said. She knew it was true. Every motherless child knew that. But just now, with her husband's voice droning on and on, she couldn't quite grasp hold of that. Because there was something else, equally true. When you were forty-five years old and missing out, it felt as if life were very long indeed.

Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it.

I love you, Papa," she said quietly, realizing how true it was, how true it had always been. Love had turned into loss and she'd pushed it away, but somehow, impossibly, a bit of that love had remained. A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.

Survival took grit and courage and effort. It was too easy to give in. No matter how afraid she was, she had to teach her children every day how to survive.

I know you have stuff you need to say, but we're kids so you stay quiet. I thought maybe writing it down would make you feel better.

God makes His choices without us.

wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it. "Yes.

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

For all my dreams of complex new beginnings and convoluted endings, it can be as easy as this: a boy singing hymns again.

She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.

The next morning, Angie woke with the sun...Her eyes felt gritty and swollen. Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.