Quotes from Kristin Hannah

D'un tratto capì che una donna poteva cambiare tutta la propria vita e sradicare la propria esistenza con una sola scelta".

A salvo no está ningún secreto.

Be brave, into her ear. And then, Or pretend to be. It's all the same.

The worst can always be true

Any more motherly attention and I could end up strapped to a table in Ward B singing 'I Gotta Be Me.

For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place

There was a poison in him...and I drank it up.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.

saving them money and helping them out. "Dad?" she said. "Could you stay

life is more than what happens to us, Elsa. We have choices to make.

But, it was a lie. For people like us, anyway. Folks who are from the wrong place, or have the wrong color skin, or speak the wrong language, or pray to the wrong God.

Aveva letto innumerevoli storie romantiche nella sua vita e aveva sognato l'amore eterno; ma non aveva mai immaginato che un semplice e vecchio materasso matrimoniale potesse diventare un mondo a sé stante, un'oasi".

without the aid of alcohol. "There are no parties to attend," he

We remember the missing as much as the lost.

Dad seemed older, his skin more lined and creased. He smiled in that way of his, the way he did everything in life, full tilt, no explanations, no regrets, no safety nets. You knew Tom Walker in a glance, because he let you in. You knew instantly that this was a man

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

Well, sir. I reckon you leave when you just can't stand your life where it is.

Hard times don't last. Love does.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound. I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground. Whisk the lamps away . . . Night.

We each survive our own way.

There will be days -- even years from now -- when the missing will be so sharp it takes your breath away.

Agora sozinha no meu apartamento, afastada de todos, espojo-me na dor, nadando nas suas águas cálidas. (Uma Estrela na Noite - pág.230

I will tell my son my life story at last. There will be pain in remembering, but there will be joy, too.

They sat in companionable silence which amazed Leni. Usually she was a nervous wreck around kids she wanted to befriend.