Quotes from Kristin Hannah

You are an inspiration, Teresa, in so many ways. Somehow you balance it all—being a soldier, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, a wife, and a mother—and you do it with grace and courage. You are truly an example of everything that is right with our country.

couldn't bear to eat anything that had once had parents.

upset. Perhaps it is because you have not been sleeping

Heartache had been a part of her life so long it had become as familiar as the color of her hair on the slight curve in her spine. Sometimes it was the lens through which she viewed her world and sometimes it was the blindfold she wore so she didn`t see.

I need your help with Ant. He won't understand." "I don't understand. This is America. How can this be happening to us?" "Hard times," Elsa said. "That's a darn lie." "Language, Loreda," Mom said tiredly.

so I put up with his controlling ways. What do I care

I'm not a brave woman." "And yet here you are, standing at the edge of battle.

Mon Dieu, Isabelle, must you always speak whatever is on your mind?" Isabelle had heard this criticism all her life, but why should she hold her tongue? No one listened to her either way.

Cuando este la besó, algo se abrió en el interior dolorido y vacío del corazón de Isabelle, se desplegó. Por primera vez entendió las novelas románticas; se dio cuenta de que el paisaje del alma de una mujer podía cambiar con la misma velocidad que un mundo en guerra.

Le parecía que la veía como una especie de jarrón que pudiera romperse y volver a pegarse como si tal cosa, pero ella sabía que si pasaba lo peor, si se hacía añicos como de cristal, algunos fragmentos se perderían para siempre.

Once you're ready to die, the plan gets easy

No, baby. This is one thing you and your best friend can't do together." Vianne saw Sarah's fear and embarrassment and confusion. She was trying her best to be a good girl, to smile and be strong even as tears glazed her eyes. "Oui," she said at last.

complaining about cutbacks at the paper plant. He

a viciousness that left her bleeding. "Schnell!

Christ. Time is short, don't you understand that? We bump along, blindly assuming we have forever to do things, say things…but we don't. You can feel perfectly fine, and go to your annual checkup on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, and discover that your time's up. Game over.

Feridas cicatrizam. O amor perdura. Nós continuamos.

the Lincoln Memorial rose up through the gloom and snow, pearlescent, lit by beams of golden light. A house, divided against itself, cannot stand.

She'd learned how to disappear in place long ago.

Still, Isabelle and Gaëtan kept going. They walked all day

It's just that I have seen firsthand that celebrity is not the utopia I'd imagined, and it has made me question my interpretations of the world around me.

You did not get me into anything, Juliette," Micheline said. "I wanted to be a part of it

We have heart and desperation

have an opportunity to make

me." "I'm sorry," Loreda said. "For—" "No sorries. We fought, we struggled, we hurt each other, so what? That's what love is, I think. It's all of it. Tears, anger, joy, struggle. Mostly, it's durable. It lasts.