Quotes from Kristin Hannah

Instead of fixing himself, he drank and made himself worse, but the man he became was not the man he was

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you and memories are what last. That's why your life flashes before your eyes when you die - you're picking the memories you want. It's like packing.

She's my heroine. You know that.' Leni knew it wasn't a good thing, not a normal mom-and-dad thing, to compare your love to a drug that could hollow your body and fry your brain and leave you for dead. But they said it to each other all the time.

Not that this seemed like a good thing at the time, mind you. I mean, I knew I was supposed to see my future on a body that held a uterus. I didn't want to be gay. I knew how hard it would be Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that it would mean giving up the American Dream—kids, a house in the suburbs, my own family. It tore me up inside." Dean had never thought about that, about what it really meant to be gay. To have to choose between who you were and who the world thought you should be.

Sometime around three in the morning, she got out of bed and went to the porch, where she sat wrapped in a blanket, staring at little beyond the vapor of her own breath. But it wasn't cold enough to numb her grief.

Ä°nsanlar giderdi ve eÄŸer çok derinden, ÅŸiddetle severseniz onlar?n ani ve h?zl? gidiÅŸleri ruhunuzun derinliklerine kadar ürpermenize neden olurdu.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. I

Really, his French was terrible.

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." She clinked her glass against Mom's.

Woman must come of age by herself Ã¢â'¬Â¦ She must find her true center alone. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

But even as the Depression had worsened, food prices had gone up. Five gallons of kerosene cost a dollar. Two pounds of butter cost fifty cents. Six pounds of rice cost nearly half a dollar.

the SS are Ã¢â'¬Â¦ brutes. The Allied victories in Africa are hitting us hard. And this final solution for the Jews Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is an evil impossible to comprehend. I…" He

The world could tumble, change radically in two days, with just one less person living in it

How could a place be as alive as Alaska, as beautiful and cruel? No. It wasn't Alaska's fault. It was hers. Leni was Matthew's second mistake.

this wasn't the end. She had to remember that. Each day she lived there was a chance for salvation. She couldn't give up. She could never give up.

They looked young and clean shaven and eager in brand-new helmets; with medals glinting on their gray-green uniforms. Young most of all. Not monsters; just boys, really.

But books were only a reflection of real life, not the thing itself.

night rather than to gobble it all up at once. And

You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

Once you've decided to die, the plan gets easy

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid.

Las heridas se cierran. El amor perdura. Permanecemos.