Quotes from Kristin Hannah

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

question was gone, tossed onto the pile of lost chances that made up Before.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories." The

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Leni's heart would always have a broken place. It didn't matter how you lost a parent or how great or shitty that parent was, a kid grieved forever. Matthew grieved for the mother he'd had. He figured Leni would grieve for the dad she wanted.

Believe me, Elsa, this little girl will love you as no one ever has Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and make you crazy and try your soul. Often all at the same time.

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

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

suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn't that what her father's lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.

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

We don't need to learn about what old rich men did more than one hundred years ago. The world is falling apart now.

Love doesn't fade or die, baby girl. People tell you it does, but it doesn't. Differently, maybe, a faded version, but he's part of you now. And you are part of him.

Words and ideas can be deadly. You be careful what you say and to whom, especially in this town.

As a girl, she'd waited impatiently for this unexpected weather, prayed for it for months, and no wonder. Covered in snow, Firefly Lane looked like something out of a fairy tale. The kind of place where nothing could ever go wrong, where a girl should be able to simply tell her family that she'd changed her mind.

If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected

Antoine took her in his arms. The scent of jasmine was intoxicating, and she knew suddenly, certainly, that from now on, whenever she smelled jasmine, she would remember this good-bye.

The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

Lost. It makes it sound as if I misplaced my loved ones; perhaps I left them where they don't belong and then turned away, too confused to retrace my steps.

She felt the end of the kiss as deeply as she'd felt the start of it.

Pretend to be brave if you have to.

Only tough women lasted on Texas farmland.

The more she got, the more she wanted, the more afraid she was of losing it, and the harder she worked.

Time spent together created an intimacy that didn't quite spill over into friendship.

Who you mom is and how she lives her life isn't a reflection of you. You can make your own choices. And there's nothing for you to be ashamed of. But you'll have to dream big, Tully.