Quotes from Kristin Hannah

Her brother giggled. Kate rolled her eyes and went upstairs. It was so lame. How could her brother laugh at the same stupid joke every day? The answer came as quickly as the question had: because he had friends. Life with friends made everything easier.

Books held the answer to every question

You can't prepare for losin' someone you love.

she returned to them.

Eduardo started a fire, made a pot of ersatz

daughter had had a way of saying things that rubbed Nora the wrong way. More often than not, they both ended up saying something they regretted.

El miedo no era lo que importaba en la vida. Lo importante eran las elecciones que hacías cuando estabas asustada.

She was smoking a cigarette and staring out the window as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing.

One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She

When times is tough and jobs is scarce, folks blame the outsider. It's human nature. And raht now, that's us. In California it used to be

but a good woman would accept responsibility—and blame—and apologize. Whatever else she was or wasn't, whatever her failings, she intended to be a good woman.

novel and in researching it.

Sandra Day O'Conner

Si algo he aprendido en mi larga vida es esto: en el amor descubrimos quiénes queremos ser; en la guerra descubrimos quiénes somos.

Vianne hated what she saw in her daughter's eyes right now. There was nothing young in her gaze—no innocence, no naïveté, no hope. Not even grief. Just anger.

I'll think about staying if you'll think about leaving.

To pick up a pen and write down her life, she'd have to remember it all, who she was, who she'd wanted to be. Those memories would be painful, both the good and the bad would wound her.

Todo ese tiempo, papá le había estado enseñando a Leni los peligros del mundo exterior. Lo cierto era que el mayor peligro estaba dentro de su propia casa.

You think you have all the time in the world until you know you don't.

Love doesn't fade or die, baby girl. People tell you it does, but it doesn't. If you love him now, you'll love him in ten years and in forty. Differently, maybe, a faded version, but he's part of you now. And you are part of him.

Somewhere in your class is the girl who will be friends with you all through high school. I promise. You just have to find her.

They call you names because they don't want to think of you as like them.

How is it illegal to ask for better wages?" Natalia lit up another cigarette. "It isn't, technically. But this is a capitalist country, run by big-money interests. After the state's anti-immigration campaign, when they rounded up all the illegals and deported them back to Mexico, the growers would have had a real problem, but then . . .

Compromises. You can go around seeing what you did get, or you can focus on what you didn't. The choice you make will ultimately determine what kind of woman you become.