Quotes from Kristin Hannah

Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I've got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.

my feet. Because of you, I can survive. I hope

Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris

her window looked out on the Great Plains night sky. Her childhood portal to adventure. How often had she stood at this window and sent her dreams into those unknown universes? She opened the window and climbed out onto the metal flower trellis. It seemed as if she were crawling into the starlit sky itself.

She knew now what she hadn't known before, hadn't even suspected: she would do anything, suffer anything, to be loved, even if it was just for a night.

She dug through her backpack, found the lunch Eva had packed for her and a well-read copy of Jane Eyre. Some kids had stuffed animals or special childhood blankets. Lexi had Jane.

The world at night was big and lonesome in a way

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds

I'll wait forever. Leni

Elsa was condemned as either a liar or a loose woman or both.

They had history together, after all, and she couldn't help loving him still. In spite of everything, all the pain and heartbreak and anger he'd left in his wake, when she closed her eyes at night, she missed him beside her, missed the sound of his breathing and the hope she'd felt that one day he would really love her.

As she passed a café filled with German

shame that was its silent twin.

Myl?dami sužinome, kokie norime b?ti, kariaudami suvokiame, kokie esame.

The old are just old.

I've been in-country a day and here's what I think: I'm going to die over here.

But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

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?

So this file contained two of three names—-ovna was the suffix for a daughter. Vera Petrovna meant Vera, Petyr's daughter.

Her biggest failure had been an inability to love herself as well as she'd loved her family.

Las palabras tenían importancia.

We have this land because we worked for it, because no matter how hard life was, we stayed here. This land provided for us. It will

I've felt her presence. "In a way, maybe. Mostly I think I know what she would say.