Quotes from Kristin Hannah

Alaska isn't about who you were when you headed this way. It's about who you become.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly...

It's scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

As we know, there are lessons to be learned from history. Hope to be derived from hardships faced before. We've gone through bad times before and survived, even thrived. History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another--what we have in common--that will save us.

You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. Not by words or anger or actions or time. I love you. I will always love you.

Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.

He taught her something new about friendship: it picked right back up where you'd left off, as if you hadn't been apart at all.

I say folks who hang on to the past miss their chance for a future.

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

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

Vianne didn't hesitate. 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. She reached for the toddler, took him in her arms.

It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

Popularity means people think they know you.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. You taught me love. You, first in the whole world, and my love for you will outlive me.

I am in awe of her fire. Even if I'm the one she sets on fire.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

Apparently you couldn't stop loving some people, or needing their love, even when you knew better.

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

Elsa knew that a library card—a thing they'd taken for granted all of their lives—meant there was still a future.

like all fairy tales, theirs was filled with thickets and dark places and broken dreams, and runaway girls.